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12/03/2012
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As you know, CO2 is the greatest enemy of the ozone layer that protects Earth from harmful sun rays to human health and the ecological balance of the planet. The Environment Ministry has set up a special team at its core climate change to monitor the works and environmental contamination caused by the events of June 2013 (Confederations Cup) and 2014.The villain of contamination by atmospheric carbon dioxide is exactly the volume of tourists should visit the country during the World Cup. According to the technicians, the Confederations Cup is only 16.5% of all pollution World Cup.
Crossing the Atlantic to spend euros in Brazil could mean a jump in the economy in the short term, but also represents a time bomb in the spreadsheet sustainability applied by Useful Simple Projects. The tourists expected in the state capital, for example, should be responsible for issuance of 607 700 tonnes of CO2, and there is no compensation plans environmental mounted to minimize that impact. Each European or American tourist on his way to Brazil represents two tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
"Tourists will be responsible for the increased flow of carbon into the atmosphere. Travel the United States or Europe to Brazil are longer. The greater the distance, the greater the impact of pollutant emissions, "said biologist Felipe Miranda Nunes, manager of Energy and Climate Change of State Environmental Foundation, an agency of state government.
Together, the infrastructure works in Belo Horizonte will issue approximately 128,900 tonnes of CO2. The works in the arenas (Mineirao reform and Mineirinho) emit 39,700 tons, while the technical operation of the Confederations Cup and World generates the equivalent of 28,100 tons of carbon.
Belo Horizonte was invited to do a pilot with consultants Useful Simple Project through the Carbon Foot Print. The organization brought a sponsorship of 200 thousand pounds to Brazil (about $ 670,000) to fulfill a mission: to help the Brazilian headquarters to inventory pollution in the organization of a great wind.
The inventory follows the protocols most modern environmental control and release of harmful gases, approved in the last ten years. The term "carbon footprint" means an activity and its conseguente emission factor for carbon dioxide. Data from Belo Horizonte are now available for all venues involved in the Confederations Cup and World Cup.
The manager of climate change the government of Minas Gerais UOL Sport helped to consolidate a prediction of carbon emissions during the 2014 World Cup. "We use data obtained from the Cup of South Africa (2010), Germany (2006) and London Olympics (2012),"said Miranda Nunes. "On average, emissions in the Brazilian headquarters will stay in the house from 804 thousand tons, but some how, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, they receive many tourists may spend up to 1.6 million tons of carbon emissions by increased use of air transport. We should be at about 10 or 11 million tons of CO2 in the general sum of the carbon footprint of the two events. "
On average, 80% of air pollution generated Cup in South Africa, at the Beijing Games and the Winter Games in Vancouver came airplanes. Each cubic meter of concrete means to release about 250 kg of CO2 in the atmosphere, the second inventory miner.
"The same should happen in Brazil. We believe that the Brazilian structure is closer to the structure in South Africa, "said the director of the British NGO, Judith Sykes, told the UOL Sports, during his last visit to Fortaleza to assist the development of control in the production of a major sporting event .
"The project has two parts: the first is to identify the carbon in human actions, and the second is to control the impact of this issue in a way educational and mass," conclude the British environmentalist. "Carbon that escape control from the purchase of inputs should be compensated with special programs to society as a legacy. "
It was precisely because of the absence of a plan to mitigate the emission of CO2 before, during and after the World Cup that Paulo Margulis, advisor to the Ministry of Environment, gave a speech harder, before representatives of Curitiba (PR), Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte (cities chosen by the NGO to receive training and environmental training).
"Folks, it's time we start to count and add up what we spend, what we are emitting carbon into the atmosphere during construction ... Without it, how we plan to reduce this impact? We have a stadium ready in Fortaleza, another almost ready to Belo Horizonte and where is the sum of carbon emissions? "The aide said the ministry, without response.
As a reference, London generated 3.5 million tons of CO2, during the Olympic Games held in July 2012. "No solid waste was buried in batches health before, during and after the Games," announces with pride the British Embassy, which sponsors environmental design.
The British are adept mood for a few connoisseurs. To break the paradigm of the British Useful Simple Projects made a crystal table showing the equivalence of a seat football and a cup of tea. More than that: it shows that building a stadium of 80 thousand seats means the destruction of 44 km2 of forest or 14 billion cups of tea. (Source: Roberto Pereira de Souza / UOL)
Source: Environment Brazil
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