ANDThe football changes the colors of its cards. To the traditional yellow and red to make reprimands, one with a positive connotation is added. Green, which means life and also sustainability and future. It is ‘the Green Card’, a great bet by FIFA to combat one of the aspects that most negatively affect society as a whole. Climate change, more and more present and continued in people’s lives.
Its eradication is key. This is how the highest soccer regulatory body considers it, as reported on the occasion of the MARCA Sport Weekend in Seville. Federico Addiechi, FIFA’s head of sustainability and responsibility, explained at the microphones of Radio MARCA and ‘La Pizarra de Quintana’ that the clear goal is to “improve and reduce carbon emissions”.
Of course, they occur at all levels, but “it is important to make people in soccer, politics and other sectors aware of the importance and urgency of climate action,” said the Argentine leader. In the specific case of football, what happens in a World Cup is remarkable, like the one that Qatar will host in the last months of 2022. “It is an event in which all the details related to carbon emissions are controlled to the maximum: plastics and waste are measured, reduced, recycled is controlled and the use of public transport is valued,” Addiechi commented.
in the microphones of Radio MARCA also analyzed what the World Cup in Qatar will mean in terms of sustainability. “We remain in the firm position of having an emission-neutral World Cup. Carbon emissions will be reduced and compensated through the system of carbon credits through which you compensate each of the waste,” Addiechi said.
“We have to do something. It’s a extensive appeal to the different sectors”, sentenced the Argentine in ‘La Pizarra de Quintana’. A ‘green card’ that reaches football and life. To change it for the better and improve an increasingly necessary social aspect. The planet forces it.
