The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 21 THREE MAIN AMBITIONS TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1. Unveil the animal and plant species that live at each site. Often when we think about “biodiversity”, we think about the extraordinary, coupled with a sense of urgency – in other words, endangered species. However, biodiversity involves all common species that are not protected but are declining, such as tits, common toads and foxes, and also need to be given careful consideration. It is this “ordinary” biodiversity that Paris 2024 wants to highlight, showcase and bring to the fore during the Games. 2. Protect habitats through on-site initiatives focusing on impact reduction, maximal reuse and sobriety, protection of users and scenery, as well as heritage. 3. Regenerate ecosystems with deteriorated environmental quality and strong renaturing potential. This corpus of actions will focus on the challenge of biodiversity, complementary to the carbon strategy also developed. It therefore involves more than merely reducing or offsetting the environmental impacts of competition venues. Paris 2024 wants to make people aware of what biodiversity represents as a whole. As well as reducing environmental impacts, the organisation of these Games must spearhead clear and comprehensive civic information and environmental regeneration. SETTING UP A CIRCULAR ECONOMY According to the Circularity Gap Report 2020 4 , the global economy consumes 100 billion tonnes of materials every year. Having increased tenfold in just a century, this consumption relies primarily on the extraction of non-renewable resources. Only 8.6% of the minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter the economy are cycled back into it after use. This resource consumption model is not sustainable in the long term and the overall risks – including a sharp rise in the price of raw materials, supply chain risk, the availability of critical materials for economies, as well as social, environmental and climate crises – must be taken into account. SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IS A PRIORITY Against a backdrop of growing tension over resource management, Paris 2024 believes that sobriety is part of setting an example and being acceptable. Adopting simple and efficient resource management is therefore a priority. Furthermore, the ripple effect of the Olympic and Paralympic Games must be used to structure and consolidate virtuous circular supply chains, which create value across the country. That is why Paris 2024 will strive to: anticipate and reduce its use of materials related to the Games by making use of existing resources; design everything that must be produced in an environmentally friendly way and give products and equipment a second life; efficiently manage material use and waste during the Games; and strengthen regional channels. 4. https://www.circularity-gap.world/2020