THE NATURAL HABITATS AND BIODIVERSITY ACTION AREA
WHAT IS BEHIND THE NATURAL HABITATS AND BIODIVERSITY ACTION AREA
Protecting natural habitats and biodiversity: Sporting events can have an impact on natural habitats and biodiversity by temporarily claiming nature and landscape for sports facilities and infrastructure or negatively affecting neighbouring habitats. Significant impairment should be avoided as far as possible during sporting events. This can be achieved primarily through the selection of a suitable venue or via environmental screening. In particular, it is important to avoid impairing intact functions that are of particular importance for the conservation of biodiversity. For this reason, nature and landscape conservation areas, legally protected biotopes and the habitats of certain species require special protection. To ensure this, a number of legal principles and procedures that are required for the organisation of sporting events or the construction of the corresponding infrastructure must be taken into account.
TARGETS AND SUB-TARGETS
- The use or impairment of sites particularly worthy of protection for the realisation of the sporting event is minimised to X m².
- The newly sealed site for the sporting event is a maximum of X m².
- If necessary, the opinion of a nature conservation expert will be commissioned both for sporting events taking place directly in nature and for the entire sporting event.
- When planning the route, the impairment of specially protected species is to be avoided.
- The concept behind channelling the flow of visitors takes species protection criteria into account.
- Channelling measures are monitored with respect to species protection and modifications are made if necessary.
- LEDs with warm white light are used for X percent of outdoor lighting systems.
- In X percent of outdoor lighting systems, the light scattering is limited by technical measures so that directed light is cast onto the sports area being illuminated.
- X measures are being implemented to reduce noise in outdoor areas.
- X measures are implemented to protect soils and natural bodies of water from adverse effects.
- Damage to vegetation and soil caused by the sporting event will be recorded and professionally remedied after the sporting event.
FURTHER TARGETS
Action areas serve to divide up the complex topic of sustainability for operationalisation. However, there are many overlaps between the fields of action. For example, although the following objectives belong to the topic of natural habits and biodiversity, they are dealt with in detail in other action areas.
- Existing buildings and areas are prioritised for use for sporting events over temporary buildings and new constructions. → Click here to discover the action area Sports Venues and Infrastructure
LINKED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The Natural Habitats and Biodiversity action area addresses the following sustainable development goals from the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
