WHEN the Paris Olympics organizers sent surfing competitions to the Pacific waters of Tahiti, critics railed against the building of a new viewing tower on Teahupo'o reef because of fears it would hurt marine life.
But it wasn't just the world-class waves that lured the organizers to the French territory 16,000 kilometers away. Another reason was the ambitious target of halving their overall carbon footprint compared with the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games.
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