FIFA made false claims about last year's World Cup in Qatar being carbon neutral, an advertising regulator in Switzerland said Wednesday.
FIFA was “not able to provide proof that the claims were accurate,” the federally recognized Swiss Commission for Fairness said in its judgment into complaints filed from five countries.The commission said it “advised FIFA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims in the future. Particularly the claim that the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was climate- or carbon-neutral.”
Qatar spent more than US$200 billion on a decade-long construction program of mostly air-conditioned projects to prepare for hosting the soccer tournament in the gas-rich emirate. It relied on using hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers working in widely criticized conditions. Environmental groups in Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland filed complaints about FIFA’s claims of a carbon-neutral tournament to the Swiss advertising regulator.
FIFA had not proven the offsets “and did not set out a plan to define how it will further offset emissions,” the ruling said.FIFA acknowledged in a statement that “climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time.”
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