\u201cThe biggest ecological impact of running events is actually the fan travel. That can be anywhere between 65% and 80% of the carbon footprint of the event industry,\u201d says Justin Zeulner, Founder of the Wave Foundation.<\/p>\n
Recognising this, the NBA has implemented measures to reduce the impact of fan travel. For the 2024 All-Star Game in Indianapolis, the league offered free public transport to and from the arena, mitigating a substantial number of individual car journeys.<\/p>\n
In April 2023, the NBA Arena Sustainability Task Force was launched to unite all venues in sharing best practices, accelerating progress in eco-data collection, impact reduction, and climate justice.<\/p>\n
As Allen says, what started as “the right thing to do” has now become “an essential business management obligation,” proving that sustainability can be integral to business success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe biggest ecological impact of running events is actually the fan travel. That can be anywhere between 65%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}