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The Department of Sports and Environment and Urban Quality join forces to promote sports and sports events are more committed to the environment.

The Councillor for Sports, Miguel Cascales, and the Environment Councillor, Adela Martinez-Cacho, implement measures of the project 'Green Games' to ensure the implementation of good environmental practices in sport.

Last month the city of Murcia acceded to the Convention 'Play Green' signed between the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) to implement environmental and sustainability criteria to the sport at the local level.

The City will implement the following measures:

Properly manage the waste produced in municipal sports facilities and sports events originating in

Use recycled paper for all documents

Provide environmental information and training to managers and volunteers

Install points separate collection in municipal facilities

Promote the use of public transport

Avoid impact on green areas and fragile

Conduct a study of solar energy facilities

Communicate these best practices to clubs, sports federations ...

Sports environmental criteria set when performing sporting events, design and construction of new facilities, systems implementation and management of existing facilities in the day to day of sporting bodies.

In addition, the facilities based on architectural and sustainable building, water savings, energy efficiency and renewable energy diversification.

The Department of Sports and Environment will work to reduce, reuse and recycling of waste, reducing air emissions, noise pollution, protection of green areas and bodiversidad and promotion of sustainable mobility (public transport).

At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, articulated the Agenda 21 action plan that aims at preserving the environment and the promotion of sustainable development.

In 1999, the IOC approved the Olympic Movement's Agenda 21 and declared the environment as a third pillar of Olympism, alongside sport and culture.

Recently it has created the Environment Committee within the Spanish Olympic Committee and approaches have been implemented environmental projects such as the Madrid 2012 Olympic bid.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia