{"id":33775,"date":"2025-02-03T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=33775"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:04:58","slug":"football-is-responsible-for-as-much-co2-as-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/02\/03\/football-is-responsible-for-as-much-co2-as-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Football is responsible for as much CO2 as Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football is more than just a sport. For fans of the beautiful game, it is almost a religion, they follow matches with devotion and follow their team&#039;s every move with avidity. FIFA says that about five billion people worldwide consider themselves football fans. The 2022 World Cup final in Qatar was watched by 1.5 billion viewers and 220 million fans attend matches annually. Football, which is talked about in every corner of the world as an industry, is worth 35.3 billion euros in Europe alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-sticky-floor c-advertising-sticky-floor sales-advertising-sticky-floor u-hide-for-medium\">But football has a dirty secret, and it&#039;s been highlighted in a new report, &quot;Dirty Tackle,&quot; by Global Responsibility Scientists and the New Weather Institute. The report estimates that the global football industry is responsible for 64 to 66 million tons of\u00a0<strong>CO2<\/strong> per year. As much as the entire Austrian state. <em>(Joanna Bailey, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/02\/03\/vanishing-jerseys-and-flooded-pitches-why-football-is-responsible-for-its-own-climate-cris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">euronews.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football is more than just a sport. For fans of the beautiful game, it is almost a religion, they follow matches with devotion and follow their team\u2019s every move with avidity. FIFA says that about five billion people worldwide consider themselves football fans. The 2022 World Cup final in Qatar was watched by 1.5 billion viewers, and 220 million people attend matches annually [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}