This is outside in. I'm Nate Hedgy. And I'm Felix Poon.

And we want you to imagine you're an Olympic athlete.

You've just arrived in Paris during the hottest part of the year and your

brand new hotel has no AC. I mean it could be a cultural thing right? From a

European perspective coming to the US

I find air conditioning excessive.

This is Martin Mueller he's a professor of geography and sustainability at the University of

Luzon in Switzerland. Most people in in Paris would and And it's true, AC is way less common in Europe, fewer than 1 in 10 households use AC, compared to almost 9 in 10 in the US.

But actually, the lack of AC at the games is about something else. It's part of a promise Paris made to be the most sustainable

Olympic Games in modern history. Organizers have traded AC units for building techniques designed to keep the Olympic village cool with less energy, better insulation, heat pumps that circulate cooler air from underground, and fans. I wonder if it's one of you know those little

handheld ones that like have little teeny tiny blades I wonder if it's one of those.

Yeah with the with the little sprayer. All this would be fine if it weren't for some countries actively revolting.

A bunch of teams are bringing their own portable AC units.

As an Olympic team that wants to have top performance, you don't want to risk anything right

so they're hedging their bets. Martin does this kind of backfire on those

commitments to have the most sustainable Olympics?

One of the things that you need to realize

is that there are some actions that are very much touted

and marketed, but that are not in themselves making a massive change in the sustainability

of the event.

So National Teams bringing their own AC units is in the end a tempest in a tea pot.

So today on the show, will Paris 2024 be the most sustainable Olympics ever?

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