Global Sustainable Sport Weekly Newsletter - 2nd March 2023
Sustainability Features
Across the world, more and more sports venues, competitions, teams and organisations are waking up to the importance of sustainability. But the team at Croke Park, the third-largest stadium in Europe, have been developing their sustainability programme since 2008. Fifteen years on, how has Croke Park managed to stay at the forefront of the sustainability movement??Read more ...
Climate change is now firmly at the forefront of not only governmental policies and business goals, but is also the cause of anxiety among many, particularly the younger generation, who feel that not enough is being done to combat the negative impact of humanity’s actions. In the second feature in a series of articles in which we talk to experts about the critical issues facing the sports industry this year and beyond, we explore the impact of climate change on sports.?Read more…
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English Championship club Sunderland AFC has unveiled a new sustainability strategy to reduce its impact on the environment.?Goals include being energy self-sufficient from renewable sources by 2028 while also providing energy to the National Grid. This is at the forefront of the new sustainability strategy, with plans for a 40mW solar farm at the Academy of Light. Sunderland will also address waste and water use.?Read more.
The newly renovated CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, US, has celebrated its soft reopening before a grand opening in April with a performance from Bruce Springsteen.?Operator Oak View Group decided to go down the renovation route as opposed to building a new stadium following a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) conducted by engineering firm Buro Happold that revealed that there would be major embodied carbon benefits by renovating.?Read more.
Last week, FIFA revealed record revenues totalling around ￡6.3bn ($7.6bn) with plans for further growth.?However, has this rise in income come at a cost to the planet? According to a report from the BBC, labelling the most recent World Cup in Qatar as ‘carbon neutral’ was ‘misleading and dangerous’. The majority of sport’s carbon footprint comes from fan travel and it was estimated that roughly one million supporters travelled to Qatar for the World Cup last year.?Read more.
Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign has launched ‘This Girl Can With You’, which is a call to arms to the sector to break down the barriers that mean women continue to remain less physically active than men.?The new phase will focus on breaking down the enjoyment gap that exists between men and women, with research showing that 2.4 million fewer women than men strongly agree they find sport and exercise enjoyable.?Read more.
The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Cymru has made a move to reduce its impact on the environment.?There are currently around 70 youth and junior sailors taking part in sailing performance programmes across Wales, meaning roughly 70,000 miles are rack up in travelling. To reduce its carbon footprint, the RYA has taken possession of eight vehicle trailers to carry up to three stacked boats. This will enable more car sharing and fewer journeys, cutting overall miles on the road by more than a third.?Read more.
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