The Erasmus+ funded GAMES project concluded with its final conference in Malmö, Sweden, held alongside the 2024 Men’s World Floorball Championships final. The event showcased the project’s results and provided a platform to discuss its impact on sustainability in sports. Karin Mårtensson, managing director of the Malmö Arena Hotel, which hosted the event, and International […]
The Erasmus+ funded GAMES project has spent two years exploring how sport can reduce its climate impact through robust governance and lower-carbon operations. This webinar brought together some of the key learnings of the actors involved. During the sessions, we explored: – The governance roadmaps that were developed for each of the federations – The […]
A database of sustainable actions that sports event organisers and organisations can adopt has been established. Created by the GAMES project, an Erasmus+ funded initiative that explores ways sport can decarbonise, the database demonstrates ways that organisations and events can minimise their environmental impact through smart choices around energy, food and beverage, transport and waste, […]
Highlighting the crucial role of strong leadership commitment to sustainability, this discussion will delve into the World Indoor Athletics Championships Glasgow 24’s spirations and strategies to successfully meet the Athletics for a Better World (ABW) Standard. Developed by World Athletics and implemented from January 2024, this standard evaluates events on their sustainable delivery. The event […]
Over the next few months, GAMES project partners will collaborate to host a selection of webinars to explore sports event decarbonisation from different perspectives. You can read about them and register below: Webinar 3: How to include sponsors in your event sustainability strategy: The case of the World Floorball Championships In this webinar, representatives from […]
Ways in which sports organisations and event hosts can embed decarbonisation practices in governance and operations was the key topic at the #MakingSportSustainable Conference in Oslo. Hosted at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH) on 29 February 2024, the event served as the mid-term conference for the Erasmus+ funded GAMES project, which is exploring […]
The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH) in Oslo will be the venue for the mid-term conference of the GAMES project, co-funded by the European Union #MakingSportSustainable will reflect on the findings of the project, which has been investigating good practices for decarbonising events in the sports of athletics, biathlon and floorball, since June 2022. […]
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.