- Sustainability
- Public engagement replace
Sustainability
Sustainability is a part of Calgary’s potential bid, by each minimizing results on our bodily setting and ensuring residents and guests can get pleasure from 2026 Olympic/Paralympic Winter Sport venues for many years after the Video games finish.
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If Calgary chooses to bid on the 2026 Video games, the occasion wants to suit with Calgary’s imaginative and prescient: an amazing place to make a dwelling and an amazing place to make a life. |
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) added sustainability to their Agenda 2020 strategic route, which incorporates 40 suggestions on decreasing the complexity and price for a candidate metropolis to host the video games.
We attempt to succeed in Calgary’s imaginative and prescient on a regular basis, with Council-approved methods that map out Calgary’s future, how we construct and form our metropolis and develop our financial system:
Draft Sustainability Framework
To align with Calgary’s imaginative and prescient, plans, and techniques, Calgary 2026 created a draft sustainability framework, consisting of eight parts. The draft framework is meant to be the inspiration on which the potential 2026 OPWG bid shall be developed. Some parts of the draft framework help the event of the potential bid. Different parts shall be developed if we select to bid and are chosen to host the 2026 OPWG. Collectively, the parts signify a complete method to sustainability that’s anticipated by the IOC.
If we are able to obtain a sustainable 2026 Video games, the return on funding to Calgary may final for many years, together with, however not restricted to:
- Rising reasonably priced housing
- Enhancing recreation and neighborhood amenities
- Decreasing carbon footprints (each the 2026 Video games and Calgary as a metropolis)
- Exposing Calgary to bigger markets, together with financial funding, job creation and elevated tourism.
As Paris continues to plan for his or her 2024 Olympic/Paralympic Summer season Video games, we’re in a singular place to incorporate their learnings and plans on sustainability into planning the 2026 OPWG, if we select to bid and are chosen to host.
Public engagement replace
We need to hear from Calgarians and speak with you about your perspective on Calgary’s future, the 2026 Video games, and whether or not or not there’s a match between the 2. A procurement course of is underway to rent an exterior guide, who will lead and implement the general public engagement program.
We’re scheduled to have a extra in-depth replace on the June 26 evaluation committee assembly.
Committee assembly recaps
For extra details about the Olympic bid mission, go to calgary.ca/OlympicBid.
