With the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver and London, we have important challenges ahead of us.
We are glad that we can meet them with the Organising Committees in the host country and host cities that are taking our concerns seriously.
We have asked them to place the bar very high, and are challenging them with strict criteria to be respected.
The IOC also has the chance and opportunity to raise awareness among its network of 203 National Olympic Committees about environmental challenges. We see this as a responsibility.
Many concrete programmes based on clear guidelines and presented in user-friendly handbooks have been developed and activated with the help of UNEP.
This year in Beijing, the IOC and the Beijing Organising Committee, in association with UNEP, will be organising the 7th World Conference on Sport and the Environment, which would be hailed as a milestone in the quest to place sport everywhere at the service of harmonious development of humanity and our environment .
We are fully aware that there are other enormous challenges awaiting us, and that much more can and must be done. We owe this to sport and to future generations.
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