Almost 100 organising committee representatives discussed decarbonisation practices at the IBU’s annual meeting On June 24th, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) hosted a workshop during the federation’s organising committee (OC) meeting in Prague, Czech Republic – the nation where the 2024 World Championships will be held – on ‘How to effectively implement decarbonisation best practices.’ […]
One of the key tasks of the GAMES project foresees the calculation of the Environmental Footprint (EF) of the main activities conducted in the framework of a large sporting event among athletics, biathlon and floorball. With this aim, researchers from SSSA, with the valuable help of World Athletics, will carry out the study of the […]
GAMES partner World Athletics will integrate their Sustainable Event Management System (SEMS), ‘Athletics for a Better World’, at the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships in August. The validity of this system and World Athletics’ ability to deliver sustainable events was recently recognised by being awarded the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) 20121 standard, a comprehensive […]
Athletes, partners, national federations and scientists were given a platform to share their knowledge, spark ideas and express climate concerns at the International Biathlon Union’s (IBU) first Sustainability Seminar. Organised to coincide with the World Championships Biathlon 2023 in Oberhof, Germany – and funded by the Erasmus+ GAMES project – the seminar explored how we can […]
Sustainability at the World Floorball Championships 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, was the subject of a workshop in February, with the GAMES project referenced as one of the key areas of work. A group of 10 participants from the Swedish Floorball Federation, International Floorball Federation (both GAMES partners), Greentime, the City of Malmö and Malmö Arena […]
World Athletics welcomes ‘Champions for a Better World’, IFF plans for 2024 and IBU celebrates governance reform results Aside from our core activities around the project, the GAMES sports partners have their own sustainability objectives and achievements. Each month, we explore their work. World Athletics welcomes ‘Champions for a Better World’ World Athletics closed 2022 […]
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, the project’s technical partner, also conducts literature review of sport and carbon management reports, guides and documents The aim of the GAMES (Green Approaches in Management for Enhancing Sport) project is to raise awareness and increase the adoption of climate change mitigation practices by key sports actors in order to […]
Riikka Rakic, Tero Kalsta and Matthew Campelli demonstrate the need to work together, holistically, to achieve environmental goals crucial for sport’s future Collaboration is the key to successfully integrating sustainability practices in sport. That was the message from Riikka Rakic, head of sustainability at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) and GAMES project partner, at the […]
At the Diamond League finale in Zürich, Seb Coe, Ajla Del Ponte, Christoph Joho and Tiberio Daddi discuss the challenges facing the sport as it tries to become more environmentally responsible As track and field athletes express their concerns around climate change, with 75% stressing that more needs to be done and 70% claiming that […]