The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 19 AN APPROACH INTEGRATED INTO THE OVERALL DESIGN, STRATEGY, ORGANISATION AND OPERATIONS The Avoid, Mitigate, Offset (AMO) approach is already widely applied. To minimise its impact, Paris 2024 has added two steps – anticipate emissions and catalyse action through the attractive force of the Games. • Anticipate : Paris 2024 uses a ground-breaking tool created by and for the Committee to estimate the carbon impact of the event to steer its choices from the outset and throughout the Games preparation period. • Avoid : by harnessing a disruptive concept. Paris 2024 will use existing or temporary structures to meet 95% of its infrastructure needs and has developed a compact and effective concept to minimise distances travelled and guarantee the venues are accessible by public and environmentally friendly transport. • Mitigate : by accurately identifying the sources of emissions and integrating low-carbon solutions into each area. • Offset : by focusing on the widest scope, scope 3, which includes indirect emissions, to create a positive impact on the climate. Any impact that cannot be avoided, such as spectator travel, will be offset through environmentally and socially beneficial projects. • Catalyse action lamong individuals and throughout the sporting movement by harnessing sport as a powerful driver of progress for the environmental transition (for example: creating and sharing tools to assess, mitigate and offset its impact, and encouraging people to change their behaviour). RECOGNISING, PROTECTING AND REGENERATING BIODIVERSITY A source of food, energy and materials that is vital for human existence, biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate. Over the past 40 years, 60% of wild animal populations have disappeared; today, 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Limiting the impacts of human activity on biodiversity is no longer enough on its own – we also need to take action to regenerate ecosystems. Paris 2024 is working towards this goal, both internally and in collaboration with its entire ecosystem. DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE SYSTEMATIC METHOD TO ANALYSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT To meet the different challenges, a method applicable to all venues had to be designed in order to assess the environmental impact from now up until the post-Games period as part of an iterative process of improvement. This method was developed in line with the ambitions and methods of the IOC and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in France, as set out in various guides on sport and biodiversity 3 . An iterative assessment tool was developed so that the specific considerations of each site as well as the environmental impact of Games developments and events could be assessed over time, from the design phase up until the end of 2024. The tool is illustrated below and identifies five areas for analysis: 3. “Mitigating biodiversity impacts of sports events” - https://www.iucn.org/content/mitigating-biodiversity-impacts-sports-events “Sports and urban biodiversity” - https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/49127