French Alps 2030: Taking inspiration from Paris 2024

The Games aim to unite the north and south French Alps, bringing benefits, both social and economic, to a wide range of communities and age groups.

They also have a vision of promoting a year-round, more sustainable forms of tourism, addressing challenges faced by mountain regions such as the effects of climate change on winter sport.

Notably, the proposal to hold the Closing Ceremony on the Promenade des Anglais was inspired by the Olympic Games Paris 2024, one of a number of areas in which this year’s Olympic Games have influenced the plans for 2030.

The Promenade hosted a free festival for the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay, and for the Winter Games would be taking a leaf out of the books of Paris, which is holding its Opening Ceremony outside of a stadium too.

Additionally, similar to Paris 2024’s Marathon Pour Tous, French Alps 2030 has ambitions to stage a mass participation event, part of efforts to extend programmes promoting the health benefits of sport to a winter context.

French Alps 2030 will be the first Olympic Games with new requirements on sustainability in force, added to the Olympic Host Contract.

These requirements include obliging the organisers to minimise both direct and indirect Games-related carbon emissions; strive to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than the Games project emits; and use their influence to encourage stakeholders to take climate action.

Specifically, French Alps 2030 aims to follow Paris 2024’s example in terms of sustainability. It will focus on concrete ambitions to create more sustainable Olympic Winter Games by developing a sustainability strategy that reduces carbon emissions and covers every aspect of Games planning and delivery, including transport, education, and procurement.