ENVIRONMENT: World Cup Football Kicks Off Green Goal Initiative

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ENVIRONMENT: World Cup Football Kicks Off Green Goal Initiative

BERLIN, Germany.

This year's World Cup football (soccer), tournament in Germany will be the

greenest ever with a new eco-friendly Green Goal initiative now in place. Green

Goal incorporates measurable environmental targets in four key areas - water,

refuse, energy and mobility. The headline target is the organization of a

climate neutral 2006 World Cup. To kick off the Green Goal initiative, an

agreement has been signed between the German government, the organizers of the

2006 Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup and the

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The agreement was signed in Berlin

by the present German Environment Minister Juergen Trittin, World Cup Organizing

Committee Senior Vice President Horst Schmidt, and UNEP Executive Director Klaus

Toepfer, a former German environment minister. Toepfer said, " This is the first

time that the world's leading sports event the FIFA World Cup has incorporated

environmental considerations in the preparation and staging

of its games. There is an increasing realization by organizers of major sports

events that they must seriously integrate the impact of their events on the

environment. "

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-07-06.asp

Caroline Collard

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www.happyandhealthy.org.uk

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