Weekly News - 15th December 2023
This will be our last newsletter of 2023. Thank you for all your great support this year and for sharing your stories, experiences and inspiration.
Wishing all our friends and colleagues a wonderful festive break and a prosperous and purposeful 2024
COP28 may have brought headlines this year with a focus on fossil fuels and sport may not have made the main stage, but sporting organisations took the opportunity to promote the importance of sustainability in this sector.
Green Gazelles, the world’s first-ever vegan rugby club, has made headlines since it was first founded five years ago. Since 2018, founder Brendon Bale and the club’s players and supporters have all been on a mission to promote the benefits of a plant-based diet.
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Now is the time to act, says Olympic gold medallist David Rudisha
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COP28 concluded with a historic agreement by 198 Parties to deliver a new era of climate action.
Today, the Parties agreed a landmark text named The UAE Consensus, that sets out an ambitious climate agenda to keep 1.5°C within reach. The UAE Consensus calls on Parties to transition away from fossil fuels to reach net zero, encourages them to submit economy-wide Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), includes a new specific target to triple renewables and double energy efficiency by 2030, and builds momentum towards a new architecture for climate finance.
The GSS Education Programme brings you everything you need to know about the?most important aspects of sport?and sustainability helping you to become a?Champion of Sustainability .
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The self-paced, online programme equips sustainability managers, senior execs, commercial or communications professionals with?sustainability essentials as well as in-depth views?– delivered by experts from around the world.
9-10th January 2024, Charlotte, NC, USA
Our friends at GOAL (Green Operations & Advanced Leadership) are hosting an inaugural sustainable motorsport conference in Charlotte, NC, USA on January 9th?& 10th. This event is structured for leagues, federations, racing teams, and circuits, but will also include solution providers and media for a portion of the time.
Sustainability Strategies in Sport
15-16th February 2024, Monaco
Sustainability has increasingly become an inseparable part of the policies and practices of sport organisations. The idea of sustainability rests on four interrelated pillars including the environmental, social, economic and institutional. Sport organisations have been making concerted efforts to address the environmental dimension of sustainability, but very little is still known about what they do to tackle the other three dimensions as promoted by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop is designed to share topical ideas and practices and to stimulate discussions with academics and practitioners
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