Beirut-based digital rights group SMEX and human rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) said that Saudi authorities had recruited Wikipedia's most reputed administrators in the country to control information about the kingdom. The government jailed administrators who contributed critical posts about political detainees to the free online encyclopedia, the two groups said earlier this month.
additional reductions compared to what would have happened anyway," he said in an interview. "So it is basically quite unlikely that their impact will actually compensate for the emissions from the tournament." Qatar's World Cup organisers have dismissed Carbon Market Watch's conclusions as speculative, saying that emissions will be calculated using "best in practice" methods after the tournament ends to ensure they are based on existing activities. But climate analysts said carbon offsets are being overused as the primary basis of net-zero claims for sporting events.