UN Climate Change invites sports organizations and their stakeholders to join a new climate action for sport movement. This initiative aims at supporting and guiding sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.

Uniting behind a set of principles, sports organizations and their communities have created an initiative by collaborating in order to position their sector on the path of the low carbon economy that global leaders agreed on in Paris: Sports for Climate Action.

The International Olympic Committee is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sustainability is one of the three pillars of Olympic Agenda 2020 alongside credibility and youth. In line with its recommendations, the IOC has developed a Sustainability Strategy. Based on the responsibility of the IOC as an organization, as the owner of the Olympic Games, and as the leader of the Olympic Movement, it focuses on infrastructure and natural sites, sourcing and resource management, mobility, workforce, and climate.

The Carbon Literacy Project is a celebrated, multi-award winning, globally unique climate change project founded in Manchester. Carbon Literacy offers a flexible framework for a days’ worth of highly relevant climate change learning, and with large-scale take-up across the UK and Europe, over 70,000 learners have now been certified as Carbon Literate.

Carbon Literacy learning and certification covers the essentials of climate change, carbon footprints, how an individual can ‘do their bit’, and why it is relevant from an individual to an organisational level.

Over the past 3 years, The Carbon Literacy Project has been working more closely with a wide range of public and private sectors to create off-the-shelf Carbon Literacy Toolkits for organisations within the sector to pick up and use to train their people. The latest of these Toolkits is the Carbon Literacy Sports Kit, which was made available to sports organisations in April 2023.

Spirit of Football (SOF) is an award-winning, nonprofit organization based in Germany, England and Brazil. Since 2005, SOF has been running programs using football as a tool to tackle the most pertinent challenges facing societies and the planet. SOF operates under three principle pillars of “diversity”, “respect”, and “teamwork”.

Every 4 years since 2002, “The Ball” (one football) has travelled overland from Battersea Park in London, where the first official football match took place, to the FIFA World Cup using a common call to action: “One Ball, One World”. The Ball is more than just a journey; Spirit of Football works closely with multiple partners along the way on specific social and environmental topics. From exchange platforms to policy change, The Ball brings together a diverse group of stakeholders from governments, schools, the football industry & civil society.

In 2022 and 2023, for the first time ever, The Ball is traveling to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia, delivering workshops to identify local environmental problems, demonstrate their global relevance and showcase possible solutions to climate change. This time The Ball uses the positive power of the world’s most popular sport to encourage people to commit to climate action.

GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf is the international non-profit entirely dedicated to helping accelerate sustainability in and through golf. Its goal is to work collaboratively to help the sport embrace environmental and social issues and become widely acclaimed for its proactive leadership in fostering nature, conserving resources, building stronger communities and taking climate action.

Our mission is to harness the power of athletes to inspire climate action. There are many athletes who already want to use their platform to make a difference to issues beyond their sport. If this is you, we’re here to support you – formulating campaigns and collaborating with every athlete who wants to use their voice for good. Whether you’ve already spoken out on issues you care about, or have never really considered it, all of us can worry that we don’t have enough knowledge to use our voice, or that if we do speak we’ll be called hypocrites. Whatever your experience, we’re creating training and resources to support athletes as confident, effective advocates for change.

The Sustainable Event Alliance is a global guild of events and sports industry professionals and suppliers. We connect people all over the world who are passionate and dedicated to producing events, sports and festivals sustainably and importantly, to using their powerful platform for good. The SEA Accredited Professionals programme reviews sustainability skills and validates competency in this essential field.

The Sports Environment Alliance (SEA) is committed to do more {for the world} with less {footprint} so we can continue to have places to play.

We find value in sharing knowledge and building networks to enhance the industry’s engagement in the clean economy to more effectively manage the changes in our natural environment..

Helping to build the world’s most inclusive and influential sustainability network for sports federations, leagues, clubs, venues, businesses and fans seeking to address climate change and other pressing environmental, social and ethical issues.

The Green Sports Alliance is the environmentally-focused trade organization that convenes stakeholders from around the sporting world (teams, leagues, conferences, venues, corporate partners, governmental agencies, athletes, and fans) to promote healthy, sustainable communities where we live and play. We are committed to creating awareness and dedicated to creating meaningful change towards a more sustainable future.

We share resources, experience, and expertise to raise awareness of what’s environmentally possible in sports, business, and society. We mobilize sports organizations, communities, athletes, and fans to create sustainable progress and behavior change.

The Council’s vision is a world where responsibly produced sports events are the norm and its mission is to provide objective, independent verification of the socially and environmentally responsible work event organizers are doing and to actively support event organizers who strive to make a difference in their communities. The current version of the Council’s Certification standards (v.4.2) was developed by an outside working group of both sustainability and sport industry experts, reviewed by a wide range of stakeholders throughout 2013 and implemented in January 2014.

The British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) is a group of like-minded individuals, organisations, partners and providers from various organisations and a diversity of sports. Our vision is to nurture and promote sustainability and sustainable development in all aspects of sport through providing high quality support, resources and events

EcoAthletes inspires and coaches athletes to lead climate action.

Are you ready to produce events that are good for you and for the planet?

Get started in sustainable event management with us: online training, tools, templates, tips and support. Including Climate Responsible, Towards Zero Waste and Purpose-Driven Events.

Pledgeball is a research-backed charity that engages fans on environmental sustainability. Working with stakeholders across the sports community, from clubs to bodies such as the LTA, from the FSA to County FAs, Pledgeball mobilises fans and event-goers to make pro-environmental choices resulting in significant emission reductions.

Champions for Earth is committed to unlocking the power of athletes as ambassadors for the planet and advocates for sustainability. In 2020 they wrote a letter to the UK Government encouraging a green recovery to the pandemic, which was signed by over 300 GB Olympians and Paralympians. Since then they have been developing OLY Earth+, a project focussed on creating a positive environmental legacy for Team GB’s participation in the Tokyo Games.

Sustainable Future News is a global sustainability-focused digital publisher that provides clarity and consistency in the business sustainability space. We help the push towards a more sustainable future by sharing insightful content from around the sector, such as news, features, interviews, case studies, lists, and more. We work with industry insiders to share experiences and solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in the space.

We’re proud to support organisations and initiatives that help drive the conversation on sustainability forward.

For further information on Sustainable Future News: https://sustainablefuturenews.com/

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Stadionwelt is the leading medium for the planning & construction, equipment and operation of stadiums, arenas and event locations. In News, Interviews and background reports, Stadionwelt informs the decision makers of the industry about implemented and upcoming projects. Topic specials, Checklists, cost examples and more exclusive contents also offer the technical background to the target group

The special competence for all questions regarding stadiums and arenas is a guarantee for the highest credibility and acceptance of Stadionwelt at the readership from the planner to the sports club as well as organizers and stadium operators.

STADIAWORLD SPORTS VENUES is the yearly published English-speaking special edition and deals with the very core issues of Stadionwelt. The international stadium and arena yearbook provides a unique overview over the worldwide construction projects and delivers valuable insights for planners, operators and the industry.

GreenSportsBlog, which Lew Blaustein launched in 2013, has become “the source for news and commentary at the intersection of Green + Sports.” Its monthly audience of up to 8,000 includes sports commissioners, team and league executives, sustainability leaders, eco-athletes and more. GreenBiz, Sustainable Brands and others syndicate his work. Blaustein was trained by Al Gore and his team as a Climate Reality Leader in 2012. Since then, he has given the slide show that was at the heart of An Inconvenient Truth to 35+ schools, religious groups, businesses and more.

The Sustainability Report is the essential source of intelligence and insight for sports professionals committed to enhancing the environmental, social and economic sustainability of their organisations. For news, analysis, interviews and other exclusive content from the world of sport and sustainability

The sports industry is looking towards the triple bottom line as a priority and is need of fresh talent to contribute to solving the social and ecological issues that face us. SportsPro’s Hackathon is an opportunity for top students from across the world to compete against each other, creating innovative solutions that could help the sports industry drive social, financial and environmental change, whilst also being mentored by the top thought leaders within the industry.

The Hackathon will see students set challenges to enable major events to fulfil the challenge of ensuring business practise is as sustainable as it can be.

Connecting the world’s stadium and arena businesses to the latest in design, operations & technology, TheStadiumBusiness family is now in its second decade. Sustainability is the key business driver, challenge and opportunity for the large venues sector. TheStadiumBusiness.com is our sector’s no.1 news channel with daily updates, twice-a-week newsletters and exclusive information. TheStadiumBusiness Summit is the largest dedicated meeting in the world of the owners, the operators and the tenants of  leading stadiums, arenas and major sport venues. TheStadiumBusiness Awards are the first industry awards FOR the stadium sector, BY the stadium sector. The awards were launched in 2009 to recognise leadership, innovation and achievement in the delivery, operation and management of sports facilities globally. Our annual Design & Development Summit is the world’s leading gathering of professionals involved in the design, construction, refurbishment and management of major sports. And the Design & Development Awards recognise leadership, innovation and achievement in the design, development, construction and refurbishment of sports and entertainment venues. Follow us here on LinkedIn.