Carbon footprint of the Summer Olympic Games 2012-2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 20, 2024

During the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, carbon emissions from proceedings were estimated to be around 1.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. This was nearly half of the previous Olympics, which were held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The Paris 2024 Olympics were forecast to continue this trend of reducing the Games' carbon footprint, with an estimated 1.75 million tonnes expected from that year's edition of the competition. 

Estimated carbon emissions at the Summer Olympic Games from 2012 to 2021, with a forecast for 2024 (in million tonnes of carbon dioxide)

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Release date

March 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

* Forecast figure. 

Figures for 2012, 2026, and 2021 were taken from this separate report. 

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