Our second GAMES webinar, hosted on Tuesday 21 November 2023, explored carbon and environmental footprint calculations in sport. Camilla Facheris, LCA expert and Environmental Researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and Kai Landwehr, Director of Corporate Marketing at myclimate, talked about their work in this field. Attendees learned: – How to apply the […]
Our first GAMES webinar, hosted on Monday 6 November 2023, explored environmental standards and certifications in sport. Bob Ramsak, Head of Sustainability at World Athletics, and Tiberio Daddi, Associate Professor at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, presented their knowledge and experience in this field. Attendees learned: – How World Athletics is developing its own […]
Sustainability was a key aspect of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest earlier this year, and was encapsulated by the Green Zone activation that occurred throughout the event. Our voxpop video, featuring athletes at the event, takes you behind the scenes.
In cooperation with the City of Lahti, Finland, the International Floorball Federation (IFF) will organise a sustainability seminar in conjunction with the Women’s U19 World Floorball Championships 2024 on 8 May. The seminar is part of the GAMES project, aiming to increase awareness and mitigation of climate change in sport. As the European Green Capital […]
The Swedish Floorball Federation, together with the International Floorball Federation, are GAMES project participants. As hosts of the 2024 Men’s World Floorball Championships in Malmö, Sweden, organisers have introduced a sustainability section of the WFC 2024 website. Shown by organisers’ commitment to GAMES, WFC 2024 has lofty sustainability ambitions on all levels – socially, environmentally, […]
GAMES partner, the International Biathlon Union, reinforced its commitment to delivering impactful climate initiatives as it continues to advance the implementation of its Sustainability Strategy and work to reduce the sport’s climate impact by 50% by 2030, in alignment with the Paris Agreement. One of the first sports organisations to join the global UN Race […]
The GAMES project was mentioned on the BBC Sports website as the IBU is nominated in the ‘Elite Organisation of the Year’ category of the BBC Green Sports Awards The IBU has been recognised for its sustainability work in the second edition of the annual BBC Green Sports Awards. Nominated in the ‘Elite Organisation of […]
During the 2023 World Athletics Championships, World Athletics hosted the ‘Building Collaborations for Sustainable Events’ panel discussion at the ASICS house in Budapest on Friday 25 August. The session focused on three areas: Reviewing and examining the ambitions of World Athletics and the Budapest LOC around delivering an event in alignment with the World Athletics […]
Launched in 2022 with support from the EU’s Erasmus+ Sport programme, the GAMES project has introduced a comprehensive report titled ‘Guidelines on Decarbonisation Practices for Athletics, Biathlon, and Floorball.’ Led by the Institute of Management at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in collaboration with World Athletics, the International Biathlon Union (IBU), the International Floorball Federation […]