New Weather Institute’s report Dirty Money – How Fossil Fuel Sponsors are Polluting Sport reveals that major oil and gas companies are spending at least $5.6 billion on the sponsorship of global sport across 205 active deals.

Since just 2017, at least 33 polluting sponsorship deals have been struck between the global esports industry and high-carbon polluters. Of these, 27 have been deals with car manufacturers, five with major fossil fuel companies, and two with the armed forces of the United States — the planet’s thirstiest consumer of oil.  

Ahead of Paris 2024, and building on the first Rings of Fire report in 2021, elite athletes from across 15 sports – including 11 Olympians – join forces with leading climate scientists and thermal physiologists to examine the serious threat extreme heat poses to competitors at the Paris Olympics.

Our new report, Olympic Smoke Rings has found that sponsorship deals between the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympics Games and just three polluting companies will generate 33.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

The organisers of EURO2024 have taken steps to mitigate carbon pollution but should be doing more to reduce its impact given the threat posed to football by extreme weather and the climate crisis.

You will have no doubt heard the advice when it comes to replacing your running shoes: replace them every 500 miles or so. In fact, this rough benchmark has even caused Strava to have an ‘alert’ set up for when your shoes reach at least 400km. So, why have my INOV8 X-Talon 255s lasted over 1000 miles of brutal running?

This report from the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) makes a compelling, and at times alarming, case for sports to seriously and comprehensively grapple with the risks climate presents to their future.

The future of winter sports is closely interwoven with the future of the climate. Rising temperatures and the ensuing loss of snow cover are shortening seasons, creating difficult and sometimes dangerous skiing conditions. Many ski resorts are struggling and some have already had to close.

Global heating, and its impacts, threaten upheaval in the world of sport. While many sports organisations are pushing ahead with sustainability strategies and pledges to cut emissions, there remains a big, branded elephant in the room: sport is increasingly being used as an advertising billboard for polluting businesses pushing goods and services that are disproportionately responsible for driving climate change.

BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan travels to Jeddah and Riyadh for a rare insight into Saudi Arabia's game-changing sporting investments. Speaking to some of the key figures involved, he asks what lies behind the country's strategy, and what issues it raises for the world of sport.

Major fossil fuel polluters like the car industry are promoting themselves through sport like the tobacco industry once did.

I started surfing when I was 14, in my hometown of Denmark in southern Western Australia. It’s a very isolated stretch of coastline, but it’s beautiful. Growing up there, the idea of ever becoming a professional surfer seemed so far away in the distance - I hadn’t even seen a professional surfer until I was 18!

Rising awareness of the climate emergency means many in the world of sport - clubs, events, fans - are turning to offsetting as a well-intentioned way to compensate for the impact of their emissions. This briefing explores why that may be a mistake, why offsetting in its current form does not do what its name implies, and why, under certain circumstances, it can even be damaging.

Global climate change is already affecting all sectors of society. This report looks at how carbon pollution is visibly ruining winter sports, tells the story of how the collapsing snow sports sector is being used as a billboard by some of the very major polluters whose emissions are speeding its downfall.

Spirit of Football e.V. (SoF) conducts workshops in the educational project One Ball, One World - Football for Climate Action to make people aware of the existing and real dangers of climate change and to showcase existing climate protection measures in football and beyond.

COP26 was the global climate summit which happened in Glasgow last November, with leaders from around the world coming together to agree their climate commitments for the coming years.

How heat could impact the 2021 Olympics

Full audio recording of Andrew Sims presenting on the Sweat not Oil report at Time to Declare 2022.

The promotion of high carbon products and services through sponsorship is a serious issue for the future of our climate. High carbon companies cannot expect to keep deliberately marketing products which are driving potentially runaway, catastrophic climate destabilisation without facing any public scrutiny.

Playing against the clock: Global sport, the climate emergency and the case for rapid change – by leading academic and author, David Goldblatt, written for the Rapid Transition Alliance, provides the first provisional estimate of the impact of global sport on the climate and warns that the climate emergency will have far more severe consequences for several sports.