TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, INFOSYS, has announced that as part of its strategic collaboration with the ATP, the governing body of men’s professional tennis, it is launching a new digital Carbon Tracker to make tennis more environmentally responsible.
The feature, which is live from today and is hosted within the existing ATP PlayerZone app, will enable players to track and offset their carbon emissions while traveling to participate in tournaments across the global tennis season, a media release said.
Aligned with ATP’s commitment to UN Sport for Climate Action, which includes a Net Zero emissions target by 2040, the application features a dashboard that presents players with a holistic view of their travel related emissions across multiple seasons – enabling deeper understanding and analysis of travel choices. This is supplemented with resources and quizzes to educate players on sustainable practices and environmental advocacy, the release said.
In addition to supporting players to achieve greener practices, the Carbon Tracker will introduce a ‘Green Badge’ that players can earn at the end of each season, to be displayed across their profile and rankings pages on ATPTour.com as a symbol of their commitment to reducing the sport’s carbon footprint.
The feature, an innovative solution in world sport, will be accessible via the ATP PlayerZone website and mobile app launched by Infosys and ATP in 2016. It will allow players to declare their travel data and categorize the mode of transport taken to each tournament, calculating an associated emissions footprint. It will in turn enable players to make more conscious travel decisions and mitigate their carbon impact via Gold Standard, a leading sustainable development standard and climate action partner of the ATP, the release added.
