VALERIE PECRESSE PDT OF ILE DE FRANCE INAUGURATES OLYMPIC WATER SPORTS STADIUM

CANYON CHAMPION ESTANGUET-PDT PARIS2024

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 06/24/2019, 02:49 Time

USPA NEWS - The canoeing and rowing events at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, officially opened five years before the Games, while the inauguration of the watersport stadium, by Valerie Pecresse President of the Ile de rance Region, as the Olympic Day kicks off in France, in the Vaires Leisure Centre, today. Designed by the Ile-de-France region with the support of the state, the new Olympic Water Sports Stadium has been opened as part of Olympic Day, held in partnership with the Festival of Sport. Attending the opening were Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France Region; Roxana Maracineanu, the French Minister for Sport; Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet; Denis Masseglia, the president of the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF), and Marie-Amélie Le Fur, the president of the French National Paralympic Committee (CPSF). To mark the occasion, the water sport stadium’s whitewater channels were filled and tested for the first time, as some 35 athletes and a group of Generation 2024 youngsters were joined by Valérie Pécresse, Roxana Maracineanu and Tony Estanguet on rafts and canoes.

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UN CLIMATE CHIEF URGES ACTION ON CLIMATE ENMERGENCY IN THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES

PATRICIA ESPINOZA SG OF UNFCC

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris Washington DC, 06/19/2019, 04:20 Time

USPA NEWS - UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, sent out very clear signals for more ambitious climate action at the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (SB50). She described the current situation as a ‘climate emergency’ and called on everyone to take part in ‘the fight of our lives.’
Spelling out the nature of the challenge ahead, Ms. Espinosa said that to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, we need to reduce emissions by 45% by 2030. With current commitments by countries - through their Nationally Determined Contributions - falling far short of this target, there was a clarion call at the opening of this meeting for governments and all stakeholders to increase ambition on climate action without further delay.

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PARIS AND LOS ANGELES COMIMIT TO PROMOTE STUDENT INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY

FOR OLYMPIC GAMES 2024 & 2028

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Los Angeles, 06/19/2019, 04:11 Time

USPA NEWS - Games 2024 and 2028: Paris and Los Angeles Commit to Promote Student International Mobility. From June 11 to 24, Paris is hosting 23 students from Los Angeles for a two-week stay dedicated to "Science and Technology in French Sport and the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games". Host cities of the Summer Olympics 2024 and 2028, Paris and Los Angeles signed an Olympic Cooperation Agreement on October 23, 2017 to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants, articulated around three pillars: sustainable development, inclusion and innovation.
 

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THE HERMITAGE PLAZA TOWERS OBTAINS THE BUILDING PERMITS OVER NO FURTHER RECOURSE

WILL BE THE TALLEST BUILDING IN WESTERN

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 06/19/2019, 03:59 Time

USPA NEWS - After seven years of legal and court battles, Hermitage obtained in early June, the purging of all claims against the building permits of the Hermitage Plaza Project.  No further recourse is therefore possible. This will now allow Hermitage to get closer to all the actors involved in this project (“Paris La Défense” public authority, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France, etc.) from September, and thus to unlock the necessary funds to start works prior to the construction of the Hermitage Plaza Towers (such as asbestos removal, demolition operations, etc.).

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