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Plastic podiums, recycled medals, cardboard beds: Sustainability at Tokyo 2020


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TOKYO - Japan has put a spotlight on sustainability at the 2020 Olympic Games, with athletes standing on podiums made of recycled plastics to receive medals crafted from recycled small electronics before sleeping on beds made of cardboard.
Electric cars ferry competitors and media between venues, many of which are temporary constructions made of recycled wood that will be dismantled after the Games, preventing the white elephant stadiums left behind in other host cities.
The Tokyo organising committee has hung its hat on providing a beyond carbon neutrality event, a goal it will meet with the help of donated carbon offset credits from businesses in Tokyo and Saitama prefectures, the two Games locations, along with the lack of spectators. ....

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Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games - On Line Opinion


The organisers of the Olympics have always been into appearances and grand theatre. And the International Olympic Committee has always been keen in keeping them up, from the barely credible notion of political neutrality to the now popular goal of carbon neutrality. In 2015, the IOC decided to fully hop on the sustainability bandwagon, though it claimed to have been an important topic for the IOC for many years . Indeed, in the 1990s, the body echoed the sentiments of the UN s sustainable development plan Agenda 21 by publishing
Olympic Movement s Agenda 21, though that report displays, rather prominently, the company logo of the oil behemoth Shell. Sustainable development was, according to the then IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch, totally in conformity with the goal of Olympism, which is to place everywhere sport at the service of the harmonious development of man. ....

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The Fiji Times » Warming waters threaten tuna – 10 Pacific economies stand vulnerable


PACIFIC COMMUNITY, CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM FISHERIES AGENCY
3 August, 2021, 7:00 pm
If ocean warming continues at current
rates the tuna catch in the combined
waters of the 10 Pacifi c SIDS is expected
to decline by an average of 20
per cent by 2050.
Picture: www.unep.org/es/node/536
Global warming is expected to progressively push tuna populations from the waters of 10 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) into the high seas, disrupting island economies, according to a new collaborative study by Conservation International and a consortium of technical agencies, including The Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Parties to the Nauru Agreement Office (PNAO), the University of Wollongong and their partners. ....

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Plastic podiums, recycled medals, cardboard beds: Sustainability at Tokyo 2020
FILE PHOTO: Recyclable cardboard beds and mattresses for athletes are pictured during a media tour at the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Games, in Tokyo, Japan June 20, 2021. Akio Kon/Pool via REUTERS
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TOKYO: Japan has put a spotlight on sustainability at the 2020 Olympic Games, with athletes standing on podiums made of recycled plastics to receive medals crafted from recycled small electronics before sleeping on beds made of cardboard.
Electric cars ferry competitors and media between venues, many of which are temporary constructions made of recycled wood that will be dismantled after the Games, preventing the white elephant stadiums left behind in other host cities. ....

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