ORF at issue: CO₂ neutral children football team

The U12 team of FC Stadlau was nominated for its exemplary commitment to climate protection among the four finalists.

The U12 team of FC Stadlau is probably the first carbon-neutral soccer team of Austria. With the help of ClimatePartner Austria, the team has calculated the CO₂ footprint of the team's operation and compensates CO₂ emissions by investing in Carbon Credits coming from a water treatment project in Kenya.

In addition to the compensation of unavoidable emissions, the children use public transportation or carpooling to travel to away games in order to save emissions and to reduce their CO₂ footprint. For training almost all players use their City Roller, furthermore, FC Stadlau invested in a solar heating system, to reduce CO₂ emissions.

In an article of the ORF there was a report on the project “Climate Protection Junior Price in Austria”, announced for the second time in a row:

ORF report: 

Background Information about "Climate Protection Award Junior":
For the second time, the Junior Climate Protection Award is announced, as a result of the cooperation between the ORF and the Ministry of Environment and Water Management. Already last year there were numerous submissions showing the potential of the Austrian youth. Anyone can participate being between 8-14 years, students, youth groups and members of associations and public institutions. On June 14, you can then decide by public vote, who will receive the award this year.

Background Information of "ClimatePartner Austria":
ClimatePartner Austria GmbH is a daughter company of Allplan, which deals with the issues of climate change and sustainability. ClimatePartner has a number of well-known clients and has been active on the Austrian market for almost 6 now. One of the major reference projects of ClimatePartner Austria was the implementation of climate-neutral football EURO 2008; a project that was conducted in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture.