What's dressed in red, yellow, green, blue, white, black and orange, sounds like the world's biggest beehive and, in one month, is expected to spew out 2.7 million tonnes of 
CO2 emissions? It's the 2010 FIFA World Cup of Soccer, which is not just the biggest and noisiest sporting event of the year, but also the sporting world's 2010 champion for GHG production. How much is 2.7 million tonnes, the CO2 emissions estimate produced by the Feasibility Study for a Carbon Neutral 2010 FIFA World Cup? About eight times the emissions of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and well over twice the emissions produced by the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. It's also 10 times the emissions estimated for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, even though the Vancouver number included all construction-related and other emissions from the day the city won the right to host the Winter Olympic Games back in 2003.
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I wonder what the Carbon emissions total was for the G8/G20???
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