Surfing event in Hawaii accomplishes zero carbon emissions

During the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, event organisers celebrated sustainability by managing to deliver a zero carbon emissions event while raising awareness about oceans protection among surfers and visitors.

The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing in Hawaii was a zero carbon emissions event.

The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is a three-event series taking place at Haleiwa, Sunset, and the Banzai Pipeline beaches in Hawaii, attracting an average of 25,000 visitors on competition days putting significant environmental stress on the beaches.

Against this challenge, Vans partnered with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, an environmental organisation dedicated to improving consumer behaviour to tackle ocean pollution. They launched a comprehensive sustainability initiative to alleviate the carbon footprint of the event and made sure that visitors do not leave a negative environmental impact in the area.

Read the Climate Action story - “Surfing event in Hawaii accomplishes zero carbon emissions.”

"Surf's down' could be the clarion call from climate change

Surfers are known for their extreme passions exhibited in pursuit of the perfect wave.

Climate change could end
 the "perfect wave".

Climate change will put even greater demands on those passions as The Sydney Morning Herald reports that our rapidly changing global climate will likely affect prime surfing spots worldwide.

It says: “In California, the forecasts for Monterey Bay's famed big swells, while far from certain, are also far from good.”

The story; “Surf's down: Climate change may flatten famed surfing waves” reports that one major source for California's surfing waves are open-ocean storms that send wave-generating swells toward the California coast.

“By 2100,” the story reports, “these storms could shift, sending their swells on a course parallel to the coast rather than toward it. This change, coupled with dramatic sea-level rise, could eradicate today's surfing spots.”