English to Chinese Social Sciences Sports / Fitness / Recreation carbon neutrality

Major League Baseball's Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays played what state officials billed as a carbon-neutral game in June, with the estimated 440 metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by spectator travel and stadium operations offset by investments in reforestation projects by the Marlins, the state of Florida and the nonprofit group carbonfund.org — efforts that absorb existing CO2 emissions and reduce excess greenhouse gases. Last November, state officials also {laid claim to} the first carbon-neutral college football game, when Florida hosted Florida State and, along with the Florida Forestry Association and Environmental Defense, set aside 18 acres of rural land in the northern part of the state for a pine plantation.
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