Q the different measures that China is taking, and there's this page here with all these fancy icons that, that outlines many of the measures that you referenced. Um, they're talking about building the greenest ice, making the games carbon neutral, which is a very squishy term, promoting wildlife conservation in competition zones, There's a long list here. Who's actually tracking whether these things are being implemented and making an impact?
A Well, the short answer is China, and not really anyone else. Um, and this is one of the big problems that people who are looking at overall Olympic sustainability, they raise that the IOC doesn't have the tools in place to check up on whether or not the, uh, Olympics hosts are meeting their commitments. There, uh, haven't really been independent checks carried out in a sort of consistent way. Um, some countries have done, you know, got other groups in to make sure that what they're saying is accurate, but, um, more closed off countries, uh, haven't been willing to, uh, let that level of scrutiny happen. So places like China, really the IOC is just taking the host country at their word. And this is one of the, the big problems that you have around the idea of sustainability in the Olympics. So the people who are in favor of this idea that the Olympics can promote sustainability, they say, well, look at it as a kind of a showcase. It's, it's an exemplar of the best the country can do, and after that, it will help to promote this broader shift. But people on the other side say, look, it's still a mass sporting event. You still have to do a lot of construction. There's gonna be a huge carbon footprint, and more often than not, it's a, a way to kind of spread the idea of being sustainable without actually making it happen in the long run. So it's, you know, the usual concerns around…
AI assessment note: “the short answer is China, and not really anyone else.”