Generally, forests are among the most important stores of carbon, accounting for nearly half of the global total.
Peatlands, organic layers of soil composed of decaying plants and biomass, also contain around 28% of irrecoverable carbon.
However, destroying or degrading these ecosystems would release this carbon into the atmosphere, making climate goals much more difficult to achieve.
But sports-related facilities also cost a fortune to build, and are often not utilized once the games are over.
Source: Robert Baade and Victor Matheson, “Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics”; Andrew Zimbalist, Circus Maximus; Marketplace; U.S.
As mobile gaming revenues explode, companies are trying to cash in their relevance in the online social space.
With newer changes in the user experience domain cropping up, gaming is now inextricably linked to the current metaverse trend.