Can Hawaiʻi Tackle Football’s Massive Carbon Footprint? Sports organizers, including the International Olympic Committee, are increasingly grappling with how to handle carbon emissions related to big events.
The game also had the kind of environmental implications that increasingly concern organizers of big-time sports events: a massive carbon footprint. That’s an inescapable reality for Hawaiʻi’s athletics program, where the Warriors’ air travel for that game alone produced an estimated 122,732 kilograms of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of driving a Tacoma pickup truck from Kaimukī to Haleʻiwa and back more than 5,000 times.
