The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) has called on India's Sports Ministry to hold the remaining IPL 2026 matches without spectators. This request comes amid rising fuel prices and concerns over the tournament's significant carbon footprint. CTI highlights the massive amount of aviation turbine fuel used by team charters and the collective emissions from thousands of fans commuting to stadiums. The proposal suggests limiting venues and removing crowds to curb nationwide energy wastage.
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This is a weird way to handle emissions. Instead of banning fans, they should be looking at sustainable aviation fuel mandates or better regional scheduling to cut down on those charter flights.
Agreed. The aviation numbers are high, but the real question is whether the CTI has actual data on the fan commute emissions or if they are just guessing based on stadium capacity.
Basically, the CTI wants the IPL to go ghost mode to save petrol and diesel. They are pointing at the 737s and A320s burning thousands of liters per hour.
It feels like a reaction to the price hike more than a long term climate strategy. Moving games behind closed doors doesn't fix the underlying transport infrastructure.
