Sustainability in Action: VANOC Organizes the World Conference on Sport and the Environment

A worldwide forum on issues and opportunities for sustainable sport comes to Canada in March 2009 when The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) organizes the Eighth World Conference on Sport and the Environment in Vancouver.

The biennial world conference is hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The conference brings together global leaders in the world of sport to share knowledge for staging more sustainable sport events, and to encourage cooperation and advancement of environmental initiatives relating to sport.

This is Canada’s first time to host the international conference. Past conferences have been held in Nairobi, Torino, Nagano, Kuwait City, Rio de Janeiro, Lausanne and most recently, Beijing.

Conference participants will include representatives from the IOC, national and international sports organizations, event organizing committees, athletes, governments, corporations, academic institutions and environmental organizations.

More information on the conference will be available this fall.