Since 1992, Greenpeace, the world’s leading environmental organisation, has been campaigning to ensure that the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games are a global showcase for environmental solutions.
Greenpeace victory: Coca-Cola cleans up
On Wednesday June 28, Olympic sponsor Coca Cola announced it was adopting a new refrigeration policy to reduce its impact on global climate change, before the world’s first Green Games. Around the globe, many thousands of people made sure Coke got the message about greenhouse-polluting HFCs. They put pressure on Coca-Cola until the company announced its new global environmental policy. Check out the Cokespotlight site to see how they did it.
– The introduction to the Greenpeace Olympics campaign
– How Greenpeace became involved with the Olympic bid
– Wins and losses: The environmental victories to date and issues still hanging in the balance.
News
Sydney’s Green Games rating slides: Tuesday, 15 August, 2000; One month before the city’s Olympic opening ceremony, Sydney has failed to live up to the promise of a year ago, losing a grade in the latest Greenpeace assessment of the Green Games. Further details, Press releases archive.
Reports
– Sydney’s Green Games gets a bronze medal: Greenpeace has released its final Report Card, awarding the Sydney Olympics a C grade, or 6 out of 10. Sydney has won a bronze medal in the race for a ‘Green Games’. The rating is down from the 7 out of 10, or B-, awarded in September 1999. Evaluating the Olympics against the Environmental Guidelines and the commitments made by organisers, our Report Card shows there are some outstanding environmental successes here but some unnecessary and disappointing failures. So while Sydney 2000 will be the greenest Games so far, they will not be as green as Australia promised the world they would be. Download report as a pdf.
– Green Olympics, Dirty Sponsors: Greenpeace reveals that leading Olympic sponsors McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are undermining the official Environmental Guidelines for the world’s first Green Games in Sydney, in September 2000, by using HFCs throughout the Olympic site. This is despite promises to the world community that the Sydney Games would be HFC-free.
– Greenpeace Olympic Report: June 2000: 100 days to go: Greenpeace’s last 100-day round-up on the progress of the Green Games.
– Scorecard: The Greenpeace Olympics Scorecard: One Year To Go: September 15, 1999: A scorecard on Sydney’s environmental performance one year from the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Read the HTML or PDF version.
– The Environmental Guidelines for the Green games: pdf 28 pages