Football to footprints: World Cup's carbon impact

only cape town has mass transit that is anywhere close to adequate for the world cup venues.

that is, it's roughly 3km from the train station to green point stadium. most europeans will walk this distance without complaint -- and the final 1km they have to walk anyway, as that is the exclusion zone. so, really 2km from the train station to the stadium grounds. you will note how the cape town taxi industry has pretty much written off the world up tourist crowd; they're not going to make any money from them.

it's a shame that commuter rail in other south african cities isn't so useful/clueful.

"At least three of the nine host cities have considered the implementation of bicycle lanes." OH JUST F*CKING SHOOT ME ALREADY!!!! Is that it? Both Pathetic and Wow!

Ok, so there is a "small" foot print, but do we actually make any profit????????????? Waterless urinals, well that should be fun. Will they also be supplying face masks to all entering the loo's. Geez, the field is going to be watered with NON drinkable water, er, what does that actually mean, I mean, would it bad to drink it? and has anybody thought of explaining this to the 500 oke's that are looking after this field. Last thing we need as a headline is "200 gardeners at soccer city die due to sipping water used for field"

We should not forget the sudden available power supply from Eskom

I'm getting tired of all these things about this world cup. We once heard of plan B which would be Australia or England, something we never heard before when the FIFA panel has decided on the host country, there is this crime this...crime that, there comes another story that also seeks to undermine the abiltiy to be successful hosts.

They are worried about carbon footprint - please get the basics right first before worrying about finer things like this. Waterless urinals will make the toilets an ammonia palace where no one will go. I have never heard of re-usable cups. This sounds like a big joke.

Consider the proposed 'offsets' :
Re-usable cups - Bicycle lanes - Sewage irrigation - Waterless urinals - No food containers.

Fans and players will receive a check-list of must haves;
ticket,
bicycle,
plastic cup,
mask,
plastic plate.

And Fifa will ban fouling so that no players end up lying around in pools of urine.

Just a thought - if the 'waterless urinal' was scrapped all together - the fans could simply take a leak on the pitch then they could do away with irrigation too.

chihuaua comments abt- what a load of rubbish all u guys are churning out..where the hell do u live- u must be having pea sized brains? Are nt we all impressed that at least we know the impact of the world cup on the environment and can use that to intensify our efforts to have carbon neutral event..

I agree with 2 cents, and guess what... the costs of making the world cup a climate neutral event will cost LESS THAN 2 CENTS !! honestly... if only the LOC would listen to proposals already made, and start acting NOW... we could see the results on a massive scale by the time the whistle blows...

Its a blaty fraud ! ! ! ! !
When these people are gonna agree that, this global warming haox is busted. 1.3bn people in China, how much are they "poluting", over 300m in US, over 1 billion in India, and they are telling us that we would be doing more damage with just around 50million people during world cup, even worse, blaty population believe these scamers. They are working so hard to conveince fible minds that we are doing more harm in Africa to environment than industrialised countries .... worse of all you people believe them .... burn me at the stake... i give up ! ! ! !