Climate protection in mega-event greening: the 2010 FIFA™ World Cup and COP17/CMP7 experiences in Durban, South Africa. (7th August 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Climate protection in mega-event greening: the 2010 FIFA™ World Cup and COP17/CMP7 experiences in Durban, South Africa. (7th August 2016)
- Main Title:
- Climate protection in mega-event greening: the 2010 FIFA™ World Cup and COP17/CMP7 experiences in Durban, South Africa
- Authors:
- Diederichs, Nicola
Roberts, Debra - Abstract:
- Abstract : The implementation of 'event greening' initiatives that address the social, ecological, climate and legacy impacts of 'mega-events' is now accepted global practice. Since 2006, measuring, reporting and offsetting climate impacts have become central elements of such greening programmes. Without a standardized approach, however, host city governments and local environmental champions play a key role in determining the scope and scale of climate protection interventions, making comparisons between mega-events and host cities difficult. Recently, the city of Durban in South Africa was responsible for developing and implementing greening programmes for two mega-events: the Durban 2010 FIFA™ World Cup and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP17/CMP7 in 2011. These experiences have highlighted the high cost of mitigating the climate impacts of mega-events, but also underscored the significant opportunities such events offer to promote investments in resource-efficient local infrastructure and to establish local climate protection projects that deliver long-term social and ecological co-benefits. The analysis of the ecological footprint of COP17/CMP7 also demonstrated that while climate protection has received substantial attention in mega-event greening, a broader set of global environmental change priorities need to shape the focus of future greening efforts.
- Is Part Of:
- Climate and development. Volume 8:Number 4(2016)
- Journal:
- Climate and development
- Issue:
- Volume 8:Number 4(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 8, Issue 4 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0008-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 376
- Page End:
- 384
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08-07
- Subjects:
- climate change -- mega-event -- carbon offset -- Durban -- greening
Climatic changes -- Periodicals
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals
Global temperature changes -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals
363.7387405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.earthscan.co.uk/JournalsHome/CDEV/tabid/29957/Default.aspx ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/earthscan/cdev ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcld20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/17565529.2015.1085361 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1756-5529
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