London Olympics: environmental achievement or missed opportunity?

Aug. 3, 2012 - PRLog -- London Olympics organizers are proud of the greenest Olympics in history. "London 2012 entries already implemented on the first phase of planning," said  Emanuel Morrow, a spokesman for the organizing committee of the games. According to forbes report.

Among other things, facilities and buildings built for the games, designed to exploit less energy. Velodrome in London, for example, will host the cycling competitions, need half the energy it promised. In addition, most of the building will not stay in same place it is designed so it can dismantle, cut and move from it location after use.

In addition, the Olympic Park food vendors will use biodegradable packaging made of starch and bio - plastic, and partnerships with suppliers such as Coca Cola and Heineken will allow visitors to easily recycle and help reduce the amount of trash.

The Olympic Park site is also noteworthy, following the last radical change. The site formerly polluted industrial zone, heavy metals and toxins. Instead established the largest urban park in the last century and restored in gaming representatives 8 km of river and planted 2,000 trees and 30,000 native aquatic plants.

Some expectations were dashed
However, critical new report drafted by international environmental organizations WWF and BioRegional, states that the management of the Olympic Games was not set targets on issues such as reducing energy use, waste and resource use. Publisnhed on the British Guardian newspaper reported.

Environmental Missed opportunity?

A study conducted for the Games in the summer of environmentally reveals that the municipality and business owners do not take the historic opportunity and resources to develop greener infrastructure.
 
Among others is demonstrated, that the organizers were not a target of 20% of the energy consumption required sites, will be produced from renewable sources and eventually consumption will probably only 9% of renewable energy. In addition to games shall not be set on zero carbon dioxide emissions and waste and do not meet air quality goals as well.

Also determined, many unused opportunities for locally grown food and products of "fair trade", probably following dealing with sponsors and commercial partners.

Environmental measures in the report does provide good grades for the Olympics, such as public transport and conservation of nature and local wildlife. However, the program added environmental aspects to games published years ago and expectations rose with time.

"In 2005, London 2012 promises were made not stand them, although we know they tried," said a director of the organization Bioregional, Sue Ridlston. We were disappointed, especially failure to meet renewable energy targets, so that the journey to sustainable Olympic Games will continue ".

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"London was set a higher standard"
The Organizing Committee of Olympic Games and the pre - Olympic,was claiming that was most destinations where achived. "We kept thr spirit and in most cases we kept our promises, and leave long-lasting legacy of positive environmentally ," said David Stubbs, director of the games. "In terms of football, maybe we did not win every game but we won the league".

Organization WWF notes that the main achievement of the Olympics in London, is setting a new standards of the environment for future  games.

"We are delighted that London has set a higher and more quickly progressed previously conducted similar events, but we expect commitment to sustainability will continue and will be taken away, the organizers of these games," said David Nussbaum, director of WWF organization in Britain, a member of the team that wrote the report.

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Morrow, from the organizing committee, said that commitment to Sustainable Development - Sustainable, giving equal emphasis to economic and social issues, will continue to be a key requirement in selecting the next host city. Indeed, Rio de Janeiro is already working on ways to reduce traffic jams and reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the Games in 2016, and the existing staff of the games are current negotiations with the London team.

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