Question

Qatar is promising an environmentally-friendly World Cup and is preparing the first "carbon neutral" World Cup in 2022.  With entering this agreement, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy has yet again underlined its commitment to organizing a carbon-neutral and sustainable FIFA World Cup in Qatar," explained Federico Addiechi, Head of FIFA Sustainability & Diversity. Furthermore, developing and promoting local and regional low-carbon projects to offset the unavoidable emissions of the tournament will also leave a positive legacy for continued climate action after the final whistle in December 2022.”

Qatar is also committed to the account for not only Scope 1 and 2 categories but also Scope 3 greenhouse emissions. To this end, please discuss the pros and cons of adopting Scope 3 greenhouse gas emission accounting standards of WBCSD & WRI. In order to become the first carbon-neutral FIFA World Cup in history, what kind of carbon offsetting strategies you propose for Qatar that will also contribute to the socio-economic sustainability of the country.

Answer 1

All the indirect emissions happening in the value chain of a company comes under scope 3 emissions.

The pros of Scope 3 emissions are

• It helps to evaluate the chain of supply and identify the hotspots of emissions.
• Assess the performance of the suppliers and identify the best and worst ones.
• Helps to produce the goods with more efficiently using the available energy sources.
• Helps to identify the suppliers which imbibes the notion of sustainability.

The cons of Scope 3 emissions are

• The whole process is very complicated.

Carbon offsetting strategies

• Using more of renewable energy- this will also induce more companies to follow the same strategy.
• Introducing a system of waste management where the methane generated as industrial waste is converted to carbon dioxide which has less potential for global warming.
• Increasing energy and fuel efficiency.
• Destroying the pollutants generated as a result of the industrial activities at their source itself

These strategies can contribute to the sustainability of the country at the economic and social level.