A tree for every podium: the Azzurri in Paris within the identify of the atmosphere

A tree for every podium. Paris 2024 will probably be all about environmental sustainability. Due to a settlement between CONI and the Ministry of the Surroundings and Power Safety, all of the Italian medalists will obtain, on the awards ceremony at Casa Italia, a certificates of “Ambassador of the Surroundings”, and as a present a tree that will probably be planted within the municipality the place the athlete lives as a logo of environmental regeneration.

Olympic athletes, with their international affect, are pure ambassadors for environmental sustainability. Their dedication to well being, self-discipline and efficiency make them position fashions for accountable habits, not solely in sports activities but in addition in on a regular basis life. By selling sustainable practices, they’ll have the mission to lift consciousness amongst thousands and thousands of followers on the significance of environmental safety.

To seal the initiative, on July twenty sixth, the Undersecretary of State Claudio Barbaro will probably be current on the inauguration of Casa Italia, representing MASE. Final July eighth, along with CONI President Malagò, he illustrated to the press the two-year memorandum of understanding that, among the many first initiatives carried out, noticed the adoption of sustainability standards for Casa Italia in Paris.

Within the subsequent two years, concrete actions may also be carried out based mostly on three different pointers: coaching, which is important to start out constructing the skilled determine of the sustainability supervisor of sports activities occasions; the promotion of grassroots and common sports activities; lastly, that is essentially the most substantial a part of the settlement, a collection of pilot occasions of a nationwide and worldwide nature that may symbolize good practices for sustainable sports activities occasions, the foundations of which have already been laid this 12 months on the Worldwide Competitors of Piazza di Siena, within the last of the Italian Cup and at Casa Azzurri on the European Soccer Championships. Occasions that may symbolize greatest practices to start out a regulatory path on environmental sustainability in sports activities.