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| LEDs play key role in green efforts surrounding the World Cup |
2010-06-15 |
South Africa has launched a green program to mitigate the carbon impact of the FIFA World Cup and LED players such as Lemnis and OSRAM are participating in the environmental effort.
The FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) World Cup has kicked off in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the host country has simultaneously launched an initiative to minimize the carbon footprint of the globally-popular event. The South African government is attempting to implement green initiatives that offset emissions that are attributable to tournament visitors and has enlisted the help of LED lighting vendor Lemnis Lighting. Osram is also involved in LED lighting for both game venues and other indoor and outdoor spaces.
The green initiative is a joint project between the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA). The Global Environment Facility has provided $1 million in funding for green projects in six of the nine cities that will host games.
The DEA along with the South African Department of Energy, Department of Tourism, the Central Energy Fund, power utility Eskom, and the local World Cup organizing committee have chosen five carbon-offset projects that will presumably compensate for the carbon emissions attributable to those traveling to the World Cup. The five include solar cookers, soil composting, wind energy, solar-powered displays, and LED lighting.
In the LED lighting area, the DEA has selected Lemnis Lighting as a partner to begin a large-scale retrofit of lighting in hotels, office buildings, and street lighting. The project will also include off-grid LED lighting for rural areas. Lemnis will donate a portion of the carbon credits that it receives for the LED lighting deployment to the DEA to help offset the South African carbon footprint that's attributable to staging the World Cup.
Buyelwa Sonjica, South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs said, "Whilst we welcome the world, South Africa's hosting of the World Cup must leave a legacy for the people of South Africa. As the environment sector, we want part of the legacy to be a green legacy. In this regard, we have initiated several programs as part of this green legacy which should benefit South Africans from all walks of life, now, and continue beyond the moment when visitors leave our shores."
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