Roland-Garros for the planet

Roland-Garros for the planet: let’s commit to the environment

A look at the actions and programmes designed to reduce the 2024 tournament’s environmental impact.

More sustainable mobility

From spectators to players and staff, everyone has a role to play when it comes to mobility. Aside from promoting public transport, we have set up two 700-space attended cycle parking lots to encourage spectators to come to the stadium complex by bike or scooter. Riders will be able to keep their helmets and batteries safe in lockers and make use of a fast-track service to the stadium complex on 5 June, World Environment Day.

As for the official fleet of vehicles made available to the FFT by Renault for transporting players, officials and VIPs, some 88% of it is hybrid or electric. In collaboration with the tournament, the French carmaker is also laying on a car sharing platform this year.

Sustainable food

By offering quality produce and fighting food waste and waste in general, the tournament is continuing to pursue its efforts to promote healthy and sustainable food.

Renewable energies

Since 2006, the FFT has been making use of the Enedis network for its energy needs, while the energy supplied to the stadium complex by ENGIE is 100% renewable.

Thanks to this partnership, solar panels have been installed across the complex, with 450 sq. m. of them on the Court Suzanne-Lenglen’s new retractable roof. All the energy they supply goes into the stadium complex network. The installation of the panels marked the end of extensive modernisation work at Roland-Garros, which was the subject of an environmental management plan.

Biodiversity projects in France

For the fifth year running, Roland-Garros has signed up to the Région Sud (Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur) and National Forestry Agency’s climate plan and is contributing to reforestation projects in areas of woodland impacted by climate change, helping them to adapt to it. Supporting the initiative are BNP Paribas, Wilson, Hespéride, Perrier and all the players and ball kids. The project chosen for this year is a planting programme at a public forest in Briançon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Awareness actions

And for the third year running, the Environmental Tennis Wall (Fresque Écologique du Tennis – a fun and educational game developed by the FFT) will raise spectator awareness of major environmental issues and provide specific solutions, with participants being invited to engage with them.

Sponsored by ENGIE, the Green Teams (Les Equipes Vertes) will be touring the stadium complex throughout the tournament (20 May-9 June) and informing spectators of environmentally friendly actions and sustainable development in general, presenting iconic initiatives to them in an entertaining and engaging way. At the 2023 tournament, some 8,000 people were able to discuss environmental issues with them. Reinforcing the message will be films playing on screens around the complex and at the courts.