Sports organizers, including the International Olympic Committee, are increasingly grappling with how to handle carbon emissions related to big events.

The University of Hawaiʻi Warriors’ recent loss on the road to the UNLV Raiders marked more than a fall to a Mountain West Conference foe.

The game also had the kind of environmental implications that increasingly concern organizers of big-time sports events: a massive carbon footprint. That’s an inescapable reality for Hawaiʻi’s athletics program, where the Warriors’ air travel for that game alone produced an estimated 122,732 kilograms of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of driving a Tacoma pickup truck from Kaimukī to Haleʻiwa and back more than 5,000 times.

That doesn’t account for the fans who traveled 2,700 miles to the disappoin

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