This month, fans are coming together to send their clubs a clear message: polluting sponsors are not welcome here.

In the Meet the Member series, we highlight members of the Cool Down Sport for Climate Action Network and their work at the intersection of sport and climate change. This week Freddie chatted to Kathy McAllister, executive director of GOALS Haiti.

A New Weather Institute report Dirty Tackle - the growing carbon footprint of football released today reveals that the carbon footprint of the global football industry is around the annual emissions of Austria or around 60% more than those of Uruguay, the nation that hosted the first World Cup in 1930.

Anna Jonsson got the chance to chat with Ulrika Sterner from the Swedish Ski Association about this unique tournament and the secrets behind its success.

A Kichwa Indigenous community in the Amazon basin in Peru has passed a groundbreaking resolution against the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in sport.

The winners of the Bad Sport Awards 2024 have been announced.

FIFA’s decision to host 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia “is a slap in the face to fans, players and anyone who puts this sport at the centre of their life”

New polling from the New Weather Institute reveals that FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Saudi Aramco is overwhelmingly opposed by female fans of women’s football across the globe.

The Global Super League, set to debut on November 26th in Guyana, promises thrilling cricketing action with five international teams battling across 11 days. But behind the spectacle lies a troubling narrative: the tournament’s title sponsor, ExxonMobil, is using the sport to deflect from its role in driving the climate crisis—one that threatens the very future of cricket and the vulnerable host nation.

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.