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The games are being described as the greenest in Olympic history, withParis 2024 pledging to halve the events carbon footprintcompared to the average of previous Summer Games...
Previous summer Olympics, which include Tokyo 2020, Rio 2016 and London 2012, have emitted an average of 3.5 million tonnes of CO2, the Paris 2024 Organising Committee says..
Vegetarian diets and other low-carbon life choices, like sustainable travel, can make a difference when theyre adopted collectively by large numbers of people, the World Economic Forum says in its latestGlobal Risks Report 2024...
Environmental risks make up four of the top five risks identified in the World Economic Forums Global Risks Report 2024.Image:Global.
The actions of individual citizens, companies and countries while perhaps insignificant on their own can move the needle on global risk reduction if they reach a critical mass, the Forum says.. Thisarticlepreviously appeared in the World Economic Forum...
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