Forest Green’s Vince treks to UEFA to enforce climate change message
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It isn’t every day that a new age traveller turned environmentalist pioneer and lower-league football club chairman is invited to address the great and the good of UEFA.
But such is the impact made by Dale Vince, who runs fourth-tier Forest Green Rovers – described as the world’s “greenest” club – that he will be travelling to Switzerland on Thursday in his role as a United Nations ambassador for climate change.
Vince, chief executive of a renewable energy company, has become something of a footballing pioneer since taking over Forest Green which became the world’s first official carbon neutral club last year as part of a new UN ‘Sports for Climate Action’ initiative – with the aim to bring sporting bodies and clubs around the world together to fight climate change.
