[2006 World Cup]The Green Goal Team--Deutsche Telekom AG

May 26, 2006 (Press Release) -- The 2006 FIFA World Cup™ will produce some 100,000 tonnes of additional greenhouse gases, and Deutsche Telekom has decided to take a lead role in counteracting the effects. The company has become the first to purchase an emissions certificate for 20,000 tonnes, as part of "Green Goal" – the 2006 FIFA World Cup environmental programme. By financing a project for climate protection in a developing country the company will neutralize this amount of green house gases. "The aim is to make it the first climate-neutral World Cup, and we are convinced that we will achieve this," explained Claudia Schwab, who is responsible for environmental protection at T-Com.

Deutsche Telekom’s commitment also includes a range of environmentally friendly measures and innovations. They will be increasing the number of vehicles which use natural gas and fuel cells for their employees in and around the 2006 FIFA World Cup stadiums, They will also be equipping those stadia with telephone boxes and Internet terminals powered by integrated solar or fuel cell energy.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup is an ideal extension of Deutsche Telekom’s environmental programme, which was launched in 1995 and has seen the company reduce their average carbon dioxide production by around 25 percent per year ever since.

Source: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/