{"id":228022,"date":"2022-06-05T15:26:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/fifa-president-shows-green-card-for-the-planet?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-06-05T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:26:16","slug":"fifa-president-shows-green-card-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fifa-president-shows-green-card-for-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President shows Green Card for the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video_wrap\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnlqOhRpFfM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>President Infantino issues message on World Environment Day; global request made to protect the environment and save the planet; FIFA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.FIFA.com\">www.FIFA.com<\/a>)<\/em>&nbsp;<em>reiterates aim to make the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022&trade; carbon neutral.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022&trade;, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has delivered a video message raising a &ldquo;Green Card for the Planet&rdquo; to highlight awareness on the protection of the environment. The initiative is linked to World Environment Day &#8211; celebrated annually on 5 June &#8211; the United Nations&rsquo; principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for this crucial subject.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As FIFA President, and today, on World Environment Day, I&rsquo;m asking everyone who loves football and who cares about the environment, to raise FIFA&rsquo;s Green Card for the Planet,&rdquo; says Gianni Infantino in his video message. &ldquo;FIFA is playing its&rsquo; part, with our aim to make the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 carbon neutral&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3Q4ojLi\">https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3Q4ojLi<\/a>). So, I call on all of you to raise the FIFA Green Card for the Planet and to record a short message, telling us what you will do to preserve the environment and save our world, and post this message on social media. Let&rsquo;s engage on this!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA President calls everyone to support the campaign by preparing their own &ldquo;Green Card for the Planet&rdquo; video message where they mention an action that they will undertake to protect the environment while also requesting others to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland, FIFA published the FIFA Climate Strategy&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3x8KXJZ\">https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3x8KXJZ<\/a>) and confirmed its pledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change &minus; Sports for Climate Action Framework, which includes a commitment to reducing emissions by 50% by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The video message from FIFA President Gianni Infantino is available on FIFA.com. A video news release can be downloaded here&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3xiBLnu\">https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3xiBLnu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of FIFA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact for African media:&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:AfricanMedia@fifa.org\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AfricanMedia@fifa.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/38116cbeb47815e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/38116cbeb47815e\" alt=\"FIFA\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/38116cbeb47815e\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vnlqOhRpFfM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vnlqOhRpFfM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xy7uaGUG2U\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/_xy7uaGUG2U\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Infantino issues message on World Environment Day; global request made to protect the environment and save the planet; FIFA (www.FIFA.com)&nbsp;reiterates aim to make the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022&trade; carbon neutral. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022&trade;, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has delivered a video message raising a &ldquo;Green Card for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-228022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fifa-president-shows-green-card-for-the-planet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}