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  • 2022-12-19 (xsd:date)
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  • it is important to understand what carbon neutrality means. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines carbon neutrality in the same way as net zero CO2 emissions. The situation can be accomplished when "anthropogenic CO2 emissions are balanced globally by anthropogenic CO2 removals over a specified period". Carbon emissions In June 2021 (en)
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  • The World Cup in Qatar is advertised as the first fully carbon neutral tournament. Skepticism about this claim is widespread. Can a major sporting event in a country that is strongly reliant on fossil fuels really produce zero carbon emissions? We checked this claim and found out that it is mostly false: FIFA has highly underestimated the carbon emissions and tries to compensate for its tremendous output by buying questionable carbon credits. On June 5 2022 – the World Environment Day – Gianni Infantino, the current FIFA president, delivered a video message raising a Green Card for the Planet". He announced that the World Cup in Qatar would be carbon neutral. "We are committed to delivering a fully carbon-neutral FIFA World Cup 2022" it says in the sustainability strategy of the current FIFA World Cup. Even when Qatar was elected in 2010 (en)
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