Around 500 participants attended Thursday's summit near the Louvre Museum in Paris championed by French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
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00:00World and business leaders have pledged billions of dollars to finance sporting initiatives
00:06aimed at accelerating sustainable development a day before the Olympic Games opens.
00:12Five hundred participants, including 50 heads of state and government, attended the Sport
00:17for Sustainable Development Summit in Paris.
00:20The event was championed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
00:25The synergy of our key actions and everything we can do with the sporting movement in this
00:30sense is absolutely fundamental.
00:32I wanted to thank you for your mobilization.
00:35The Games are a time to highlight what is being done, to launch new initiatives that
00:39we are doing.
00:41And thank you for all the funding that is being mobilized for the African continent,
00:46the Latin American and Pacific continent in this sense.
00:49And I thank you for the commitment of each day in this direction.
00:54A coalition of public development banks pledged to invest 9.2 billion euros across the world
01:00for community-based, inclusive and sustainable sports infrastructure by 2030.
01:05And the French development agency said it would release 500 million euros for sustainable
01:10development in sports.
01:12With his country slated to host the 2026 Youth Olympic Games, Senegal's president said the
01:18Olympic ideal is today challenged by the tragedy of war.
01:24The 2024 Paris Olympics opens on July 26th and runs until August 11th.