Ecological organization or greenwashing? If the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ensures that it does everything possible to preserve the environment, it could well be that these Games will be much less green than the golf courses.
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As the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games draws closer and closer, the details of the events are gradually being revealed. Latest: golf, which will take place at the Guyancourt national golf course (Yvelines) from July 26 to August 11. A green test – like all the rest of the Games – assures the Organizing Committee of the Games on its site InternetInternet.
Really ? Certainly, efforts have been made by the French Federation, notably with the development of the “ Golf and environment 2019-2024 » jointly with the Ministry ofEcologyEcologyof Sustainable developmentSustainable development and theEnergyEnergyand a collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History in order to preserve the areas of biodiversitybiodiversity which develop in spaces left wild on the land.
Green land, green practices?
The fact remains that, since 2019, the environment has benefited from an advantage, and not the least: that of watering the tees and the greens which are the areas from which the first shots are taken and the areas of short-mown grass where there are the holes.
An exception that applies during “enhanced alert” drought levels when “many other activities are banned outright. This is the case of theirrigationirrigation crops, watering green spaces and even watering sports fields (with the exception of fields involved in national or international competitions), easily comparable to the practice of golf.point out our colleagues from 20 minutes.
If greens only make up about 2% of a golf course, “the average national consumption annualannual of water of a golf course is 25,000 m3 per year and per 9 holes », we can read on the website of the French Golf Federation… Efforts, therefore, but which still represent the equivalent of the annual consumption of 463 French people. Enough to call into question the practice of such a sport in summer in a context of global warming which makes drinking water a major public health issue.
