WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS INTER-AGENCY GAMES 2008?
UNESCO organizes the IAG every fourth year. For the year 2008, UNESCO wants to contribute to raising awareness about the importance of sustainable development in sport and promote awareness and educate the IAG members of the importance of a healthy environment and sustainable development. The practice of sport and physical activity carries certain effects and has a certain impact on the environment. The effect and nature of the impact on the environment is circumstantial depending on the type of physical activity and sport practised. Environment has become now the third pillar of the Olympic Movement, alongside sport and culture. This means environmental considerations are going to underpin the sporting and cultural aspects of all future Summer and Winter Olympic Games. For instance, the Final Declaration from the 7th World Conference on Sport and the Environment (25-27 October 2007 in Beijing, China) recognized the interdependence between a clean, healthy environment and the proper co
