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World leaders pledge billions to sports and sustainability at pre-Olympics summit
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26/07/2024
Around 500 participants attended Thursday's summit near the Louvre Museum in Paris championed by French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
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World and business leaders have pledged billions of dollars to finance sporting initiatives
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aimed at accelerating sustainable development a day before the Olympic Games opens.
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Five hundred participants, including 50 heads of state and government, attended the Sport
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for Sustainable Development Summit in Paris.
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The event was championed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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The synergy of our key actions and everything we can do with the sporting movement in this
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sense is absolutely fundamental.
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I wanted to thank you for your mobilization.
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The Games are a time to highlight what is being done, to launch new initiatives that
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we are doing.
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And thank you for all the funding that is being mobilized for the African continent,
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the Latin American and Pacific continent in this sense.
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And I thank you for the commitment of each day in this direction.
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A coalition of public development banks pledged to invest 9.2 billion euros across the world
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for community-based, inclusive and sustainable sports infrastructure by 2030.
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And the French development agency said it would release 500 million euros for sustainable
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development in sports.
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With his country slated to host the 2026 Youth Olympic Games, Senegal's president said the
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Olympic ideal is today challenged by the tragedy of war.
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The 2024 Paris Olympics opens on July 26th and runs until August 11th.
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