The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 112 Paris 2024 has chosen to place particular emphasis on five priority issues: 1. Circular economy initiatives before and after the Games 2. Carbon neutrality and environmental protection initiatives 3. Social innovation initiatives 4. The inclusion of groups, workers and users living with disabilities 5. Value creation in local areas Indicators related to each of these five issues are currently being developed to encourage Paris 2024 to be efficient in rolling out the responsible purchasing strategy and go beyond good intentions to achieve practical results. A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ISO 20121 STANDARD A sustainable management system is a set of processes to systematically integrate environmental and social challenges into the activity of an organisation. The Paris 2024 sustainable management system, which is in compliance with the ISO 20121 standard, is therefore a tool that helps ensure ambition is turned into action. It aims to facilitate the delivery of Paris 2024’s Legacy and Sustainability strategy by providing a set of processes designed to support teams and enabling stakeholders in the Games ecosystem to align with Paris 2024’s ambitions. Paris 2024’s sustainable management system includes the following components: • the policy of the sustainable management system and the action plans of the relevant departments; • processes, formalised through procedures when necessary, that describe how to go about the assessment of challenges, dialogue with stakeholders in the Games ecosystem, regulatory monitoring, skills management, operations management, data collection for reporting, etc.; • operational tools to help Paris 2024 teams integrate social and environmental challenges into their activities, including priority matrices, checklists of sustainability best practices, standards, engagement charters and guides. These components are broken down into strategic planning, operational planning, support, delivery and performance monitoring. The fundamental aspects of the sustainable management system are being implemented in 2020 and 2021 with a view to receiving the first ISO 20121 certification – for the planning phase – in the first half of 2022. Paris 2024 is also exploring options to develop the standard to better take into account legacy challenges.
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