Report - How to Plan a Sustainable Event – Part 2Sustainability, a Major Factor in Achieving Successful Games in Tokyo: Tokyo
2020 Games as a successor to the London 2012 Games’ Legacy
DateTuesday, April 22, 2014 15:30-17:30 JST in Tokyo

Venue

Lambuth Hall, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo Marunouchi Campus
Sapia Tower 10th Floor, 1-7-12 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Organizer

Caux Round Table Japan, CERESPO CO.,LTD., SGS Japan Inc.

Language

Japanese and English

On April 22, 2014, Caux Round Table Japan (CRT Japan) in collaboration withCerespo and SGS Japan held a joint conference on sustainability as a major
factor in achieving successful Games in Tokyo 2020 as successor to London. 28people from 26 organizations participated in Part 2 conference, and with theparticipants of Part 1 conference in March 18, 42 people from 33 organizations,
totally 70 people from 59 organizations participated in the series of conferences.
In Opening Remark, Nobuharu Suzuki, Managing Director of SGS Japan
addressed importance of planning and operating the Games based on theglobally acknowledged standard and exhibiting it to the global society, in order toachieve successful Games in Japan. Therefore it is also important forbusinesses to exercise their actions in an integrated manner, he said.
Thereafter, some of the key organizations and execution processes of thesustainability efforts for the London Games were presented by Miho Okada,
Director of CRT Japan, and two video messages from Gerry Walsh, Head ofProcurement for LOCOG and Jonathan Pauling, Principal Policy Officer, Food
Programme, Greater London Authority were delivered on subjects of“Sustainable Supply Chain” and “Sustainable Food” respectively introducing
their activities in the London Games.
Hidenobu Tadano, Japan Sports Volunteering Network, then, delivered a lecture
entitled “Volunteering in terms of the sustainability”. He presented definition andcharacteristics of the sports volunteering and introduced a data of sports
volunteering execution rate, drawn from a research by Sasakawa Sports

Foundation and specific examples of the volunteer activities from TokyoMarathon. The lecture also covered some of the approaches taken for sustaining
and improving motivation of volunteers at the time of London Games, as well as
potential roles the volunteers can play in the context of sustainability.
Another video message “Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights” by John
Morrison, Institute for Human Rights and Business followed the lecture. He
highlighted an issue of temporary workers and human rights based on hisexperience of human rights due diligence activity with 5000 hotels in London,
addressed significance of applying such activities to other events or cities andsucceeding it as sustainable resource, not regarding it as one time experience.
In addition, he emphasized importance of understanding/capturing relevant
human rights issues in a wider context of the business. Then Miho Okada
introduced envisaged human rights issues and stakeholders by event life cycle,
based on “Striving for Excellence: Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights”
published in 2013 by Institute for Human Rights and Business.
After that Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, presented a view ofglobal expectation that Japanese business and NGOs/NPOs should closely
coordinate their efforts and focus on sustainability issues towards the Games inTokyo 2020, and emphasized that Japanese business should take such joint
efforts as opportunities rather than risks. He also shared a view of how CRT
Japan is planning to engage in the Games and its future direction.
Finally Atsuya Okamoto, Managing Director, Cerespo Co., Ltd. delivered aclosing remark. He identified spirit of the Olympic Charter is a source of principleof actions for sustainability and the Olympic/Paralympic Games, and quoting theIOC Press Release on April 21 clearly addressing importance of respect for“inclusion”, “elimination of gender discrimination” and “human rights” by the hostcities. According to the principle, Japan should meet the global expectations withrespect of human rights, have a mindset that the Games is an opportunity tochange the society, and create invisible legacy.
Reassuring that it is our duty to appropriately relay a baton, not only fromLondon to Rio and from Rio to Tokyo, but also to subsequent host cities of theGames, he concluded with his hope to continue discussion based on the viewshared in this seminar.