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Paris Olympics ‘Green’ Policies Risk Backlash & Higher Emissions

Tuesday, June 25, 2024, By Vanessa Marquette

Paris is gearing up to go green for the 2024 Olympics, but some of their initiatives might face challenges. For instance, the is causing some disruption to their plans.

, professor of geography and the environment at 黑料不打烊’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, shared his thoughts below. If you’d like to schedule an interview with him, please reach out to Vanessa Marquette, media relations specialist, at vrmarque@syr.edu.

Huber writes: “As long as well-meaning 鈥榞reen鈥� policies continue to foreground taking away modern comforts, they will generate angry backlash (and in this case the opposite effect of more emissions as countries inefficiently seek to keep their athletes cool in a uncoordinated fashion). This is not unrelated to the electoral losses Greens endured in the recent EU elections (and could hit France itself soon).鈥�