搭配新環境友善的綠色進球（Green Goal）計劃，2006年於德國的世界盃足球賽顯得份外的綠。綠色進球將其重要的環境目標體現於：水源、垃圾、能源和機動等四項領域。而宣傳目標則是舉辦一屆對環境影響中性的世界盃足球賽。
為了踢動這項綠色進球計畫，德國政府、2006年世界盃國際足球聯盟（FIFA）以及聯合國環境規劃署於6日共同簽訂一項協議。在柏林簽署的這項協議分別由德國環境部部長崔廷、世界盃組織委員會副會長施密德以及聯合國環境規劃署執行長，同時也是德國環境部前部長托佛代表簽定。
托佛表示：「這是首次由最為風靡世界的運動賽事──國際足球聯盟的世界盃，將環境考量納入賽事的準備和登場。大型運動賽事的主事者漸漸了解到，他們在活動規劃上必須認真考量這些活動對環境的衝擊。」
聯合國環境規劃署將提供世界盃委員會技術和通訊支援，協助委員會進行在計畫比賽的籌備和舉行時的各種環境考量和方案。世足賽最後決賽將在2006年6月9日到7月9日之間舉行。
為期兩天的「運動賽事與永續發展研討會」將於2006年初在慕尼黑運動場舉辦。在2006年世足賽期間，將會挪出一天給「綠色進球」計畫作相關訊息發布特別日，當天將召開記者會和舉辦其他活動。
2006年世界盃足球賽正規劃成為世界上第一次對氣候影響「中性」（neutral）的世界盃足球決賽。德國足球協會將投資50萬歐元在一項在印度坦米爾納德邦全面的救援計畫，坦米爾納德邦曾受之前的海嘯嚴重影響。
估計世足賽決賽期間，將因交通流量大增為德國多帶來10萬公噸的溫室氣體排放；而前述的救援計畫，將可彌補其中的三分之一。該援助計畫名為「家用乾淨能源配套方案」，將為2004年海嘯重創的村莊提供環保、安全與供應無虞的能源，並可同時遏制地方與全球氣候暖化，改善村民的生活品質。
Next year’s World Cup football, or soccer, tournament in Germany will be the greenest ever with a new eco-friendly Green Goal initiative now in place. Green Goal incorporate measurable environmental targets in four key areas- water, refuse, energy and mobility. The headline target is the organization of a climate neutral 2006 world cup.
To kick off the Green Goal initiative, an agreement was signed Tuesday between the German government, the organizers of the 2006 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The agreement was signed in Berlin by the present German Environment Minister Juergen Trittin, World Cup Organizing Committee Senior Vice President Horst Schmidt, and UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer, a former German environment minister.
Toepfer said, "This is the first time that the world's leading sports event – the FIFA World Cup – has incorporated environmental considerations in the preparation and staging of its games. There is an increasing realization by organizers of major sports events that they must seriously integrate the impact of their events on the environment."
UNEP will provide technical and communications support to the World Cup Organizing Committee as it plans to integrate environmental considerations and projects with preparations and staging of the tournament. The final competition will be held from June 9 to July 9, 2006.
A two day conference on Sport Events and Sustainable Development will be organized in Munich Stadium in early 2006. During the FIFA 2006 World Cup there will be a special information day dedicated to the Green Goal, with press conferences and other events.
The 2006 FIFA World Cup is planning to become the first ever climate neutral FIFA World Cup finals. The German Football Association is to invest €500,000 in a comprehensive aid program in Tamil Nadu, a region of India severely affected by the tsunami disaster.
A central component of the program offsets the first third of 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions forecast to be generated in Germany by increased traffic volumes at the finals. The Family Clean Energy Packages aid project for Tamil Nadu aims to provide eco-friendly, safe and guaranteed energy supplies to villages hit by the December 2004 tsunami, simultaneously protecting the local and global climate, and improving the villagers' quality of life.
