The French professional football governing body and the environmental NGO WWF signed a partnership in April to reduce the ecological footprint of football clubs. Water and energy consumption, waste generation, food and travel… any sporting event has an impact on the ...
Friends of the Earth compares oil and gas industry to tobacco, and takes aim at Ineos’ sponsorship of hugely successful cycling team Companies in the oil and gas industry should be banned from making sport sponsorship deals, according to environmental ...
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 ...
Clubs establish projects to engage players and fans as La Ligue de Football Professionnel agrees one-year partnership with WWF. Several French football clubs are coordinating projects around reforestation, beach clean-ups and eco-citizen education programmes to coincide with La Ligue de ...
What comes to mind when you picture your perfect running backdrop? Maybe a trail winding through a sun-dappled forest, a vast expanse of white, sandy beach, or a long stretch of road with white-capped mountain ...
A Working Group established by 10 European NOCs is demonstrating how sports entities can effectively share knowledge to collectively address climate change and other sustainability issues At COP24, the UNFCCC unveiled its Sport for Climate Action Framework – a five-step ...
In these darkly surreal times, sport sometimes seems to have the answer. Not for sanity, too late indeed. But for tiny moments of bliss – a perfectly balanced flick off the toes, the crescendo of hooves thudding through the earth, ...
Since the turn of the year, MLS club Seattle Sounders and Real Betis of Spain have joined Forest Green Rovers to become the first batch of professional sports clubs to pledge climate neutrality. It’s been a barnstorming start to the ...
VfL Wolfsburg, the 2008/09 German title winner, was named as the most sustainable club in the Bundesliga. But the other clubs, the league and the German football association are slowly trying to make environmental stewardship the norm. There was a ...
The New York Yankees baseball organization has aligned itself with the Paris Agreement by signing on to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) website, the pinstripes from New York ...
