“Unlike the Olympic Games, where the carbon footprint has been decreasing in recent editions, this will not apply to the men’s World Cup in football. The opposite will apply, “David Gogišvili, a geographer at the Swiss University of Lausanne (Unil), told AFP press agency. The organizers are expecting record revenues from the tournament, but, as the Lausanne University research shows, the football tournament “produced the largest carbon footprint in the history of international sport.” The emissions of CO2 calculated by Unil range from five to nine million tons, compared to about 1.75 million tons for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Gogišvili continued.
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will host the 2026 World Cup final.
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