Organizer

• Climate Youth Japan (CYJ)

Event Overview

Sustainalympics is a compound word of "sustainable" and "Olympic / Paralympics" with the idea of making the Tokyo 2020 Games a sustainable Olympic. Climate Youth Japan has been thinking through the Japan Pavilion about the ideal way of the Sustainalympics for four years. With the Tokyo 2020 Games in preparation for the next year, we will analyze and verify their efforts for the Olympics so far, and consider efforts to achieve a sustainable Olympics, including after the Games. Then the goal is to connect legacy and lesson batons to the following Olympic games.

The presentation consisted of three timeframes: before the Tokyo 2020 Games, after the Games, and to the following Games. In the first part, we considered sustainability from the past steps toward the sustainability of the Tokyo Games ahead of the following year. In the second part, we focused on sustainability after the end of the Tokyo Games and decided to consider management from the present day before the end of the Games. Part 3 covered the role of youth in future competitions based on the knowledge of dialogue centered on youth and sustainability during the COY15 / COP25 session.

Speaker

• Takumi Hirasawa, Climate Youth Japan, Leader of COP Business
• Takuto Kaku, Climate Youth Japan, Member of COP Business
• Shina Tsuyuki, Climate Youth Japan, Member of COP Business
• Hiroki Oota, Climate Youth Japan, Member of COP Business
• Takato Kameyama, Climate Youth Japan, Member of COP Business
• Jiayu Guo, China Youth Climate Action Network

Event Summary

Climate Youth Japan has been thinking about the sustainable Olympic through the Japan Pavilion for four years. We analyzed and verified our efforts for the Olympic Games so far, and focused on how we would like to lead to the legacy of youth initiatives.

We will introduce how the Tokyo Olympics are trying to reduce CO2, introduce our vision for existing transportation networks and renewable energy, and focus on palm oil on the introduction of sustainable sourcing codes. We've discussed the current situation and challenges of deployment. We briefly introduced four cases of sustainability picks as examples of youth initiatives. Among them, we talked about the food loss-focused case of Creative Cooking Battle and his vision for the Olympics next year.

Finally, he explained how to preserve these legacies, and gave a lecture to the youth of China, the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics, and talked about their efforts. Mr. Koizumi, Minister of the Environment, also welcomed guests to create a place to think seriously about sustainability.