FIFA’s latest grand tournament, the month-long Club World Cup has kicked off in the USA. The expanded 32-team games flex the football industry’s money making power, while spotlighting its disregard for people and planet.
The report calls for a phased reduction in international credit use within K-ETS, increased focus on domestic emission reductions, and alignment with best practices from systems like the EU ETS. Strengthening the environmental integrity of K-ETS is essential to achieving South Korea’s climate goals and ensuring the global credibility of the country’s climate action by putting in place and implementing robust and effective policies.
Despite its talk of making the World Cups climate friendly, FIFA is clearly following the money, whether it is from wealthy and polluting corporate sponsors or countries with questionable human rights and sustainability credentials.
3 December 2024 | 10:30 – 13:30 CET | RED Radisson Hotel, Rue d’Idalie 35, 1050 Bruxelles and online REGISTER HERE As a supplement to fast, deep and sustained emissions reductions, carbon removals will be needed to balance out the emissions that society deems vital and hard to abate, and to lower historical greenhouse gas …
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The Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity initiative’s latest guidance on the use of carbon credits by companies undermines VCMI’s stated mission of combating greenwashing and setting out a framework for making valid climate claims. Last year, VCMI published its long anticipated Claims Code of Practice, which provides guidance for companies on how to use carbon credits …
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CMW applauds United Nations’ Secretary General António Guterres’s calls for the safe and sustainable use of carbon removals while warning that these technologies were not a “silver bullet” and cannot substitute deep emissions cuts.
In the race against accelerating global warming, the 2024 Paris Olympics will not get the games past the finish line, our analysis finds. The only solution is to rethink and reform the mega event