nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ff16bbb33440d8d7 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260605s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ff16bbb33440d8d7 doi eng 342 23 Liduma, Marta Author aut Decorative by Design - Climate Clauses Without Consequences in FIFA’s Bidding Rules Liduma, Marta Verfassungsblog 2026-06-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier FIFA’s climate criteria for World Cup hosts borrow the authority of international climate law without any enforcement consequence. The 2026 host country’s withdrawal from the parent treaty regime exposes the borrowing as decorative. On 11 June 2026, the US opens the tournament that promised environmental leadership and an emissions trajectory aligned with the Paris Agreement. FIFA treats this contradiction as a non-event. What exactly do FIFA climate criteria oblige, and through what mechanism? The answer, on close reading, is that they oblige very little. CC BY-SA 4.0 CAS Climate FIFA Paris Agreement UNFCCC USA World Cup (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd USA Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/decorative-by-design/ raw object