The World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 is taking a significant step forward in recognising the importance of sustainability in event delivery. Collaborating closely with the event’s organisers, World Athletics – a GAMES project sport partner – has introduced a series of initiatives aimed at minimising the environmental impact of the championship while also contributing positively […]
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 […]
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 […]