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SPORTS for CLIMATE ACTION Global Climate Action IN COLLABORATION WITH SUSTAINABILITY ESSENTIALS A SERIES OF PRACTICAL GUIDES FOR THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT SPORTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION Global Climate Action SUSTAINABILITY ESSENTIALS Sustainability is one of the most pressing sustainability across the IOC’s three spheres challenges of our time across a wide of responsibility: spectrum of social, environmental and economic matters. Major issues such as • The IOC as an organisation: To embrace climate change, economic inequality and sustainability principles and to include social injustice are affecting people sustainability in its day-to-day operations. throughout the world. These are also pressing concerns for the sports community, • The IOC as owner of the Olympic both for managing its day-to-day affairs and Games: To take a proactive and leadership for its responsibilities towards young people role on sustainability and ensure that it is and future generations. We also recognise included in all aspects of the planning and that sport has an unrivalled capacity to staging of the Olympic Games. motivate and inspire large numbers of people. This is why we believe that the • The IOC as leader of the Olympic Olympic Movement has both a duty and an Movement: To engage and assist Olympic opportunity to contribute actively to global Movement stakeholders in integrating sustainability in line with our vision: “Building sustainability within their own organisations a better world through sport”. and operations. It is therefore logical that sustainability forms Following on from Olympic Agenda 2020, one of the key elements of Olympic Agenda we issued the IOC Sustainability Strategy in 2020, the Olympic Movement’s strategic January 2017. The Strategy is based on our roadmap adopted in December 2014. three spheres of responsibility and five In particular, this defined our approach to focus areas, as illustrated below. The IOC Sustainability Strategy framework is illustrated below: Infrastructure and natural sites Sourcing and resource management Mobility IOC AS LE AD ER O F T H E Workforce IOC A O S O L WN Y ER M O P I IMPACT F C T H M E O O V L Y E M M I P E O OC RG I N A A C T Climate N S I G S A A A N T M I O E N S CONTROL INFLUENCE 02 03 Global Climate Action The Strategy sets out a number of actions The “Sustainability Essentials” series of guides in our capacity as leader of the Olympic is the first concrete outcome of this Movement. Among these is a commitment commitment. These guides aim to provide to develop common guidelines, simple, practical and essential information on methodologies and tools for National key aspects of sustainability for NOCs and IFs Olympic Committees (NOCs) and to be better able to navigate the complexities International Federations (IFs). of this subject and develop effective Further information can be found at sustainability programmes. Whether your https://www.olympic.org/sustainability. organisation is just starting out, or is already actively engaged in sustainability, we hope these guides will provide a valuable overview and reference point for this important topic. FEEDBACK We hope that our “Sustainability Essentials” guides will provide a valuable basis for understanding sustainability. We also know that sustainability is a constantly evolving discipline, with new issues, challenges and opportunities always needing to be addressed. We therefore welcome feedback, comments and suggestions so that we can continually improve our guidance and ensure our material is as fresh, relevant and accurate as possible. If you have any comments, please contact us in any language at: [email protected] PRINTING This document is available only as a downloadable pdf file from the IOC website. If you need to print a copy, please set your printer to double-sided copying on recycled paper. Ideally, please also avoid colour printing and copying. 02 03 Global Climate Action CONTENTS Principle 2: Reduce overall climate impact ........................................................ 72 Principle 4: Promote sustainable and responsible consumption .................................... 72 Principle 5: Advocate for climate action through communication ...................................... 73 3. Modalities of work ............................................ 73 4. Sports for Climate Action Declaration ........ 75 04 05 Global Climate Action CONTENTS Momentum for Change Initiative ................... 94 Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA) ................................... 95 Verified Carbon Standard................................ 95 Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards ..................................... 96 Promoting green tourism................................. 87 Other impacts affecting wellbeing of athletes and workforce ................................ 89 04 05 ESSENTIALS IN BRIEF Global Climate Action ESSENTIALS IN BRIEF Climate change is already having a huge This means that sports organisations have a influence on sport across the world. The impact responsibility to limit their climate impacts, as of higher temperatures, more frequent floods, well as take measures to adapt to the impacts extended droughts and rising sea levels are of climate change. increasingly determining where sport can be played, when it can be played and how it can It is therefore only right that the sport be played. Playing surfaces are being lost, community plays an active part in the global playing seasons are changing and the timing movement to take action on climate change. and management of sports events are being This is not just symbolic; sport is uniquely affected. Extreme weather affects sporting placed to use its significant powers of performance and the ability to enjoy sport, inspiration and influence to demonstrate as a player or as a spectator. The disruption leadership and undertake systematic efforts to and costs involved pose one of the greatest promote greater environmental responsibility. threats to the world of sport as we know it. In this guide we set out how the world of sport These impacts are being seen worldwide: can reduce its overall climate impact; how it can unplayable surfaces for cricket, golf and promote more sustainable and responsible football; heat stress among tennis players; consumption and advocate for climate action lack of snow closing winter resorts; biological through education and communication. pathogens spreading to new areas and damaging turfgrass; increased energy bills This guide has been created in collaboration for sports venues; water use restrictions with UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a and many more. means to support the Sports for Climate Action Framework. Sport is not just a victim of climate change; it is also a net contributor through greenhouse The individual positive actions of NOCs, IFs and gas (GHG) emissions linked to travel, energy numerous sports clubs and facilities around the use and other forms of consumption. world can make a real difference. SPORT IS NOT JUST A VICTIM OF CLIMATE CHANGE; IT IS ALSO A NET CONTRIBUTOR THROUGH GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS LINKED TO TRAVEL, ENERGY USE AND OTHER FORMS OF CONSUMPTION 06 07 ESSENTIALS IN BRIEF Global Climate Action SPORTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION ESSENTIALS IN BRIEF: SUMMARY OF KEY STEPS 1. MEASURE AND UNDERSTAND: KNOW WHERE YOU STAND Establish a reference (baseline) carbon footprint to identify your organisation’s current levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and understand how you can take effective action. 2. TAKE ACTION Avoid: choose not to do something Prioritise opportunities to avoid carbon emissions. Reduce: choose to do less Optimise resource-efficiency in energy use, transport, materials and work practices in order to reduce your carbon footprint. Substitute: do the same but with “cleaner” processes/equipment Introduce renewable energy and lower-carbon technologies in place of older more carbon-intensive energy sources and equipment. Compensate: do good elsewhere to balance your unavoidable GHG emissions Implement measures to deal with residual or unavoidable emissions and promote behaviour change. Report: account for your GHG emissions and show progress towards carbon neutrality Publish results of your actions and share lessons learned. 3. EDUCATE AND INSPIRE Inform your stakeholders about your climate action initiatives and encourage them to take action themselves. 06 07 INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION 08 09 INTRODUCTION Global Climate Action INTRODUCTION This guide to Climate Action is part of our Please note that this is a complex, technical “Sustainability Essentials” series. Our aim here subject and it is not possible in a simple guide is to provide a general understanding of the to provide a comprehensive account of all the issues related to climate change and managing issues and practical measures applicable at the your carbon (or greenhouse gas/GHG) different levels from small organisations and emissions. We examine what this means, why grassroots facilities to major clubs, venues and it is important, how it relates to sport and what events. What we hope is that this guide will your organisation can do to address climate provide you with sufficient understanding of the change. In addition, we look at climate subject, ideas for getting started in addressing adaptation measures that organisations climate impacts, and where you will need to increasingly need to adopt in order to continue bring in expert support. their day-to-day activities in the face of more extreme and variable weather patterns. The structure of our approach derives from the
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