The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11 this year. According to **, the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee will create an athletes' village without air conditioning, aiming to achieve the goal of halving carbon dioxide emissions.
A recent study said Paris could experience weeks-long heatwaves during this summer's Olympics and could even face breaking the record for the highest temperatures in history, although the Paris Organising Committee said it was ready to deal with heatwaves and extreme weather. Nicolás Ferrande, the head of the construction company responsible for the construction of the Olympic Village, said at a press conference that if houses are air-conditioned, they will not be able to comply with their carbon neutrality commitments. "The rooms we are building will be six degrees cooler than the outside temperature," he said. ”
However, the lack of air conditioning is still a source of concern for some sports delegations. The Greek delegation said it would bring its own portable air conditioner during the Paris Olympics. The president of the Greek Olympic Committee, Capralos, said that the need for air conditioning during the competition will be met by purchasing or soliciting sponsorships. Australia and Ireland also plan to provide air conditioning for athletes.
On December 19, 2023 local time, the camera visited the Paris Olympic Village under construction According to Visual China.
In Tokyo, there is air conditioning everywhere. And here, the problem does not seem to have been anticipated by Paris", said one athlete in an interview who did not want to be named, "the Organising Committee wants to have an ecological project, but here it will face the real problem of room temperature." ”
Ferlande also admitted in an interview that "the organizing committee chose an ecological event, but did not take into account the situation of the athletes when the heat wave hits. Some sports organisations are already looking for alternative solutions in other settlements, and if the organisers fail to solve the problem, the Olympic Village may become vacant. ”
On December 19, 2023 local time, Nicolas Ferrande, the head of the Olympic Village and venue contractor company of the Paris Olympic Games, introduced the progress of the construction of the venue.
Last summer, a heat wave swept the world, and Europe warmed faster. According to Xinhua News Agency, in response to the weather conditions from June 1 to September 15, 2023, the French Public Health Agency has issued a monitoring report saying that this is the fourth hottest summer in France since the beginning of the 20th century, with a total of four heat waves and 73% of French residents affected. More than 5,000 people died directly or indirectly from high temperatures throughout the summer, accounting for more than 3% of all causes of deaths monitored during the same period. Among them, the elderly over 75 years old account for 75% of the deaths due to heat.
In such a hot weather, the air conditioning is not installed in the sports village, which has also aroused heated discussions among netizens, some people think that it is necessary to install air conditioning, and some netizens think that this kind of policy in Paris is very good and environmentally friendly.
It is reported that the Olympic Village of this year's Paris Olympics is located in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, and can accommodate 140,000 athletes and coaches.
Edited by Cheng Li.
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