LONDON OLYMPIC: About Sustainability

During this big event this coming 2012. London assures that the spectators as well as the athletes will provided a good environment. It's time to show and promote to the world how change the way of life to build, live and work.

About sustainability

Being ‘sustainable’ means providing for peoples’ current and long-term needs, improving quality of life while ensuring a healthy and thriving natural environment. As the most high-profile event in the world, the Games give us the chance to show how changes to the way we build, live, work, do business and travel could help us to live happy and healthy lives, within our planet’s resources.

Sustainability underpinned the bid for the London 2012 Games, framed by the concept of ‘Towards a One Planet 2012'. This was derived from the WWF/BioRegional concept of ‘One Planet Living®’ , which shows the challenges facing us in stark terms: if everybody in the world lived the same lifestyle as we do in the UK, we would need three planets’ worth of resources to support us.

This idea forms the basis of our plans for sustainable development in the UK and, more broadly, the way in which we can use the Games to highlight global issues such as climate change.

London 2012 and the London 2012 stakeholders share a commitment to maximise sustainability through the phases of the Games – building the venues and infrastructure, staging the Games themselves and then long into the future – focusing on five key areas:

• combating climate change;
• reducing waste;
• enhancing biodiversity;
• promoting inclusion; and
• encouraging healthy living.

This programme-wide approach forms our vision for a one planet London 2012.

Sustainability assurance

It is important to us that people know how we are performing against our sustainability aims from a trusted source. To ensure we stick to our promises, an independent scrutiny body - Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 - has been set up to monitor us.

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