Are you looking for a local race that respects environmental criteria or are you the organizer of a tournament that you want to be eco-responsible? The Sustainable development, sport is committed label will help you make your selection or give you the procedure to follow. Created in 2009 but completely revised twelve years later, it is delivered by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) after careful study of the application file.
“The label offers three levels of labeling – gold, silver, bronze – with 34 criteria to be met, 13 of which are mandatory, distributed around six areas,” summarizes Jean Zoungrana, vice-president of the CNOSF and in charge of better living together. Through this certification, the aim is to provide simple tools to organizers and to promote good practices. »
The six axes embrace all of sustainable development: responsible governance, public awareness, respect and involvement of practitioners, protection of the environment, respect for ethical values and promotion of territories.
Concretely, this implies the need to call on local service providers (food, security, etc.), to set up a space dedicated to raising public awareness of eco-responsible actions (travel, limiting use of plastic, etc.) or to promote the accessibility of the event to people with reduced mobility.
Nearly 500 events already certified
The procedure for being labeled has been simplified and now involves a file to be completed on the CNOSF website. For local events, certification will be issued by regional committees, with the CNOSF taking care of the most important events.
“The idea is to allow progression from one year to the next and to give an event the possibility of going from bronze to gold level in a few years,” indicates Jean Zoungrana, also president of the Canoe Federation. kayak, whose World Championships organized in France in 2022 had benefited from the gold label.
Nearly 500 events have already benefited from the label in France. “And nearly 4 million spectators were jointly made aware of the values of sport and sustainable development,” adds Jean Zoungrana. That’s 700,000 competitors and 92,000 volunteers. As for the general public, they can check whether an event they wish to attend meets all of these criteria on the label’s website.
Note that it exists for sporting events of international scope such as the Paris Olympic Games, the Rugby World Cup organized in France or the Great Race of Greater Paris, the charter of 15 eco-responsible commitments. It was developed by the Ministry of Sports in collaboration with the WWF organization.
