Decorative by Design - Climate Clauses Without Consequences in FIFA’s Bidding Rules Liduma, Marta Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-06-05 eng
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 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 Liduma, Marta CAS Climate FIFA Paris Agreement UNFCCC USA World Cup USA 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/decorative-by-design/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/ff16bbb33440d8d7 260605 10.59704/ff16bbb33440d8d7 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)