IOC: "climate reliability" of Olympic Winter Games host venues guaranteed until 2050 (study)

"As long as greenhouse gas emissions are reduced or stabilised, every region of the world that has already hosted the Olympic Winter Games should still be able to do so until at least the 2050s," according to the independent study "Climate change and the climate reliability of hosts in the second century of the Winter Olympic Games" commissioned by the International Olympic Committee and relayed on 12/11/2024.

"Each of the regions would be able to offer multiple potential host locations for Olympic snow sports, with the majority retaining their climate reliability into the 2080s. Under a high-emissions scenario, by the 2080s the majority of locations studied would be too warm," said the body.

In order to reduce the event's carbon footprint, and on the basis of recommendations made by the Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games, in December 2022 the IOC executive board defined two conditions governing the selection of host committees:
• climate reliability (average minimum temperatures below zero degrees at the competition venues on the dates of the Games over a ten-year…