Sports’ greenwashing has reached Putumayo in the Amazon in its most blatant, insensitive form Badvertising reports.

Winter sports faces an existential threat from climate breakdown - but its future is all but ensured. Some elite athletes are trying to create a different future for winter sports, where competing on the piste does not come at the cost of the earth.

We need sport more than ever. Amidst a worsening climate crisis, sport can hold communities together and bring joy, routine, challenge and excitement. It is a deeply human collective endeavour. Whatever future we get, these are qualities that we need. Cool Down Sport For Climate Action is collecting sporting tales from the Climate Frontlines and giving a platform to the voices that are often missing. 

As a growing number of elite athletes use their platforms to call for more ambitious climate action and lifestyle changes, it is crucial to understand the impacts that athlete leadership could have - both on the brave athletes that pursue it and those that they are speaking to.

When it comes to major sports events, sponsorship from climate-wrecking industries that endanger the future of the sports they fund is not just common, it’s the norm. This year’s America’s Cup is no exception.

By calling out the most egregious examples of sportswashing and greenwash from across global sport, the awards aim to send a clear message that enough is enough.

FIFA’s decision to ally with Saudi Aramco is no better than letting big tobacco sponsor kids’ sporting events. This isn’t just a betrayal of football, it’s an assault on everything the women’s game symbolises.

The new report from New Weather Institute, Dirty Money - How Fossil Fuel Sponsors are Polluting Sport, has found that major oil and gas companies are spending at least $5.6 billion on the sponsorship of global sport across 205 active deals.

The desire to drive short term commercial success is blinding football’s key decision makers to the existential threat football faces from a hotter and less stable climate.

To be a cricket fan in 2024 is to be climate stressed. But there are glimmers of hope.

Sport is full of teams that cannot reproduce their unbeatable home form when they are playing away. So is banking.

Climate change is impacting the performance of athletes at the Paris Games and it’s causing problems for spectators and organisers too. 

Sport could showcase what a green transition looks like, reimagined with qualities of health, joy and fairness, tackling hard issues like pollution from travel and greenwash from sponsors.

As summer rolls on, major polluters continue to use international and beloved sports as billboards to promote themselves. From The Euros (sponsored by Qatar) and the Tour de France (sponsored by Ineos), to international cricket (Saudi Aramco) and the Olympics (Air France, Toyota, Accelor Mittal), this greenwashing is everywhere.

Sport is a story machine. As seasons, years and careers roll by, sport constantly resets. With every refresh a new story cycle begins. We devour rivalries, the twists of an athlete’s career, the troubled relationships between managers, coaches, players, teams, supporters and even the reporters who feed us the stories.

In 2030 we’ll either be fully engaged in positive transformative adaptation or we’ll have missed the narrow window of opportunity to secure a liveable world. If we messed up, then we would be managing the effects of our crazy climate causing the collapse of our food and fresh water systems, our ecological and our social systems. My heart aches at the thought so I switch my focus.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the pinnacle of global sports, boasting a history that dates back to 776 BC. Over the centuries, the Games have endured natural disasters, cultural shifts, and even genocidal regimes. Now, however, their future is under threat from an unprecedented challenge: the climate crisis.

Prolific artist and former amateur athlete Judith Dean has created two new paintings for the Cool Down Network and the Badvertising Campaign: ‘Own Goal’ and ‘Finish Line'.

Before the beginning of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, multiple athletes have come forward to warn that extreme heat poses risks to their lives at the latest Olympic Games.