South Africa launched the LED project to clear the world cup carbon footprint

In order to offset the carbon emissions due to FIFA held the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Ministry of environment and the United Nations Environment Programme, the South African Department of energy, Ministry of tourism, South Africa's central energy fund, yisikang power company and the FIFA 2010 World Cup Organizing Committee and the European lighting technology supplier Lemnis company before the launch light the diode (LED) to start the project". As part of the South African environment ministry's national green program, the project will be part of the carbon credits will be handed over to the Ministry of the environment, in order to compensate for the carbon footprint of the 2010 World cup.

It is estimated that in 2010 the world cup this global sporting event will produce about 900 thousand tons of carbon dioxide equivalent carbon footprint.

At present, Lemnis South Africa branch has been in hotels, offices, families, urban streets and rural areas of large-scale lighting modification project. Gorst Jo, head of Lemnis, said that by replacing 3 million LED bulbs, you can save up to 24 megawatts of electricity, which is equivalent to the construction of a less than a 60 MW thermal power plant. Light emitting diode startup project is also the world's first LED lighting to apply for carbon credits for the clean development mechanism (CDM) project.