A report says hosting another Olympics would likely benefit Utah's environment and society. Utah's plan is to expand Trax, electrify buses, create a broader network of electric vehicle charging stations, and promote environmental stewardship.
Sarah Wright was just getting Utah Clean Energy off the ground in 2002, the year Utah hosted its first Olympics. Suffice it to say, she wasn’t exactly counting down the days or holding her breath until they started.
The International Olympic Committee has increasingly required hosts to take a climate positive approach, particularly when it comes to the Winter Games. Last December, the effects of climate change came to roost with the IOC when it delayed announcing the host of the 2030 Olympics in part, it said, because it was concerned that many past and potential future sites might soon become too warm to host the Games.
“We can be much more thoughtful, we can be much more impactful about what we’re doing,” Raney-Norman said while speaking at the unveiling of the report. “So it isn’t just that focus on those 17 days, right? It’s thinking about that living legacy, thinking about what it’s going to be afterward.” Wright, whose organization deals mostly with energy production, said Utah has already begun to make strides in that arena. She pointed tothat it plans to shut down most of its coal-fired power plants by 2030. She also pointed to plans to expand Trax and electrify buses and said the state has a plan to create a broader network of electric vehicle charging stations .
“What we need to do and what I hope the Olympic committee will do as we look to a climate-positive Olympics is that we can bring it all together in a quilt that actually drives action for the entire state,” Wright said. “Because we need to take action on climate and we need to stay on a pace that we’ve never heard of. And so it’s bringing it all together and pushing it forward faster.
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