Sustainability & Carbon Neutrality in FIFA World Cup Qatar
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Sustainability & Carbon Neutrality in
FIFA World Cup™ Qatar
FIFA World CupTM • The FIFA World Cup™ is the biggest single-sport event in the world • Over three million spectators • Over three billion in-home television viewers • Over one billion watching the final match • Huge opportunities for advertisement, investment, and associations
Qatar - Host of FIFA World Cup™ 2022 Qatar located on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula. - More than 2.6 million population with 2.2 million expats - Highest per capita income in the world - High human development index - Football power house with interest many clubs and companies across the globe
SECURE REGIONAL
BENEFITS
COMPACT SUSTAINABLE
TOURNAMENT & Carbon
neutral
What makes
the 2022 FIFA
World Cup™
FAMILY Qatar unique? BRIDGING
ORIENTED CULTURES
LEGACY
INNOVATIVE
FOCUSSED
HOSPITABLE
A Compact Tournament
Tournament Footprint:
Tournament
footprint • 388 square miles – all precincts and training
just over half
the size of sites are within an area just over half the size
Greater of Greater London
London
• Doha Metro and Public Transport to connect
all tournament sites
Distances between stadiums:
• 35 miles – direct distances between the
stadiums precincts furthest apart
• 3 miles – direct distance between stadiums
closest to one another
• 1.5 miles – direct distance between Hamad
International Airport and the closest stadium
Primary
Compact
Delivery
Tournament
Partners
Tournament
footprint
just over half
the size of
Greater
London
Deliver infrastructure, Event organiser Football governing
legacy and host and fulfill hosting body and event owner
country operations agreement
Compact Tournament
Stadiums
Al Bayt Stadium – Al Rayyan Stadium Al Thumama Stadium Al Wakrah Stadium
Al Khor City
Education City Stadium Khalifa International Ras Abu Aboud Stadium Lusail Stadium
Stadium
Sustainability
Compact Tournament
Strategy
- Joint strategy Tournament
footprint
just over half
- Robust consultation the size of
Greater
London
- Materiality focus
- Long term objectives
- 5 Pillars
- 20 material issues
- 22 objectives
- 70+ initiatives
Compact
Environmental
Tournament
Pillar
- Sustainable building - design,
Tournament
footprint
construct and operate just over half
the size of
Greater
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions London
(Carbon Neutrality)
- Minimise air pollution
- Minimise waste sent to landfill
- Minimise water use
Carbon Neutrality
• Build the Case • Identify Emissions
• Find Partners
1. Raise
2. Inventory
Awareness
4. Offset 3. Mitigate
• Neutralize emissions • Reduce emissionsRaise Awareness
- Carbon Neutral commitment from Bid
Stage
- First FIFA World Cup to neutralize all
the emissions including fans
international travel
- Awareness raising workshops
- Sponsoring and participations of local
and regional sustainability eventsInventory
- Estimation of carbon emissions
related to the Tournament with
inclusion of construction
- Inventories are available for previous
FIFA World Cups
- Third party consultant is appointed
by FIFA to prepare the Carbon
inventory report
- Publishing ex ante Carbon Inventory
report for the Tournament in 2019Mitigate
- The SC is implementing best practices during
stadium construction:
- Efficient design for lower energy and water
consumption
- Reuse and recycle of water and materials
- Efficient waste management strategies
- GSAS certification for all Stadiums
- Other contributors for reduced carbon footprint are :
- Compact tournament
- Use of Doha Metro for transportationOffset
Emissions which cannot be reduced will be offset as
follows:
- Local and Regional projects
- Projects motivated through SC which are not under
the boundary of the Tournament.
- Projects with multiple sustainability benefits
- Supported the development of Global Carbon
Trust
- Identifying and supporting development of offset
projectsThank you This is about dreaming big, to extract as much benefit as possible for people – in Qatar, the region and around the world. It is a precious opportunity that we must not waste. An opportunity to share a common mission and make a difference through creating a better future. We intend to make the most of it. I invite you to join us on our journey. H.E. Hassan Al Thawadi Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy United Nations, New York, Friday 22 September 2017.
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