Tour de France in no position to shrug off climate action protest

French gendarmes remove environmental protestors from the race route as their protest action temporarily immobilized the pack of riders during the 10th stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France
French gendarmes remove environmen✨tal protestors from the race route as their protes🤪t action temporarily immobilized the pack of riders during the 10th stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France (Image credit: Getty Images)

The bicycle may be a most ecologically-sound mode of transport, but the great bike race is a different proposition. While some attempts have been made to offset the event's carbon footprint in recent years, there is no escaping the sad fact that the Tour de France was not an altogether inappropriate target for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:peaceful environmental protests of the kind witnessed o🌌n stage 10 to Megève.

The logistics of bringing a rolling village of approximately 4,000 people around France has made it so. As of last year, ASO claims that 100% of the carbon emissions produced by the Tour organis🌞ation itself are offset, but those calculations do not factor in the emissions produced by the team staff, journalists, sponsors, corporate guests, fans and assorted suiveurs following the race across its three weeks.