The DEA’s initiative to Green the FIFA World Cup includes three major greening projects: a UNEP program to offset the carbon emissions of eleven World Cup teams, renewable energy interventions in six World Cup host cities and an awareness-raising drive on green tourism.
Working with the ‘Glowball against Global Warming Campaign’ along with international sustainability entrepreneur Maurits Groen, Lemnis Lighting has commenced the ‘LED’s Kick Off’ program, a retrofitting of inefficient lighting with LEDs in hotels, office buildings, households, street lighting and in rural areas.
A portion of the carbon credits generated as a result of this roll-out of LED lighting will be donated to the DEA to offset the domestic carbon footprint of the World Cup 2010 event (estimated at 900,000 tons of CO2).
Lemnis Lighting’s complete range of Pharox LED products, street lights with Lemnis’ mesopic lighting technology, and the off-grid Pharox Solar will be used for the program.
The company claims that Pharox LEDs typically last five times longer than CFLs, do not contain mercury, are recyclable, and have a lifetime of up to 25 years while offering electricity savings of up to 90%.
‘LED’s Kick Off’ is a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program using LED lighting. Under the Kyoto protocol, the CDM is designed to achieve the goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Through the generation of carbon credits, Lemnis Lighting sad that it is able to offer financial incentives to remove the hurdle for customers and institutions in implementing LED technology.
Warner Philips, co-founder of Lemnis Lighting and president of Lemnis, US, said: “With the ‘LED’s Kick Off’ program, momentum is added to our recent entry into the South African market and the broader African continent.”
