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 […]
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 […]
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.’ […]