LA28 will have an even more ambitious carbon strategy than Paris 2024, Olympic sustainability chief Marie Sallois tells Dezeen in this Olympic Impact interview.
Sallois, who is the corporate and sustainable development director for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), described the Paris Olympics as a landmark achievement in the journey to net-zero.
"We are demonstrating with Paris that we can be sustainable ? we are on our way," Sallois said.
"I do not know a lot of events or industries that have been able to cut their footprint in half in 12 years."
Paris 2024 is the first ever Olympic Games organised to a carbon budget. It has a target to emit no more than 1.58 million tonnes of carbon dioxide ? around half the carbon cost of London 2012 or Rio 2016. A report published shortly before the games got underway stated that this ambition is on track to be met.
"Paris 2024 has done the utmost"
"We strongly believe that Paris 2024 has done the utmost at this given point in time, in the context of France," Sallois told Dezeen.
"We have gone really far in terms of implementation on the carbon and the material footprints. The innovation will leave a legacy in France and probably beyond."
While reluctant to draw direct comparisons between Paris and Los Angeles, which will host the next summer Olympics in 2028, Sallois indicated that further progress can be expected.
"Every edition will aim higher in a certain context with ...