The Sustainable Sport and Event Toolkit Seminar, held 24-25 June 2010 at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland not only presented sustainable guidelines for sport events, but implemented sustainable practices into the organisation of the seminar as well.

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The Climate Scoreboard

July 23rd, 2010

“The Climate Scoreboard is an online tool that allows the public, journalists and other interested parties to track progress in the ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard automatically reports, on a daily basis, whether proposals in the treaty process commit countries to enough greenhouse gas emissions reductions to achieve widely expressed goals, such as limiting future warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C (2.7 to 3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures.”

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