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April 28, 2021
News / Interviews

British Triathlon and home nations launch Sustainability Commission

To mark World Earth Day (22 April), British Triathlon and the three home nations of England, Scotland and Wales, have launched a Sustainability Commission. […]

Source: British Triathlon
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April 27, 2021
News / Interviews

QOC joins UNFCCC’s Sports for Climate Action initiative

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sunday announced it has joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC’s) Sports for Climate Action initiative […]

Climate Action
April 22, 2021
News / Interviews

SailGP driving coastal city regeneration and sustainable development

Fiona Morgan, global director of purpose and impact, explains how the competition is working with host locations to accelerate renewable energy and blue carbon […]

Source: The Sustainability Report
Climate Action
April 23, 2021
News / Interviews

American sports brand Vans announces new sustainability targets

American action sports brand Vans has announced new global commitments to environmental sustainability and responsibility that will be achieved by 2030. The company will move towards […]

Source: Vans
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April 21, 2021
News / Interviews

IPL 2021: Ministry of Jal Shakti to regulate extraction of groundwater usage in IPL Matches

IPL (Indian Premier League) 2021 – Water Wastage Charges on IPL: With IPL hosting games every day, maintaining pitch and keeping it match-ready requires […]

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April 21, 2021
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Turning textile waste into sports shoes and apparel: Asics launched a new sustainable collection

The recycling of textile waste into another textile product is now the thing of the past. Asics has launched a new sustainable sports shoe […]

Source: ASICS
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Sport as a vehicle for Social Impact

April 23, 2021 - May 21, 2021
Organiser:
Sport4Impact

Building on the first edition of Sport4Impact held on January 2018 and referring to other international conferences or gatherings (such as, among other ones: Safeguarding Sport from Corruption,  Vienna  (5-6 June, 3,4 September 2019) promoted by Russian Federation and Italy; CIGEPS Extraordinary Session (28-29 March 2019), the Antananarivo Conference on KAP for Africa (11-14 September 2019); the Conference aims at maintaining and strengthening the momentum generated so far by those events focusing on the five following specific Intervention Segments:

  • SPORT FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR DEVELOPMENT (Policy Area II KAP)
    Sport as a leverage for long term oriented programs aiming at a real and substantive social inclusion functional to durable local development, also for citizenship empowerment. A special attention is given to the Skills for Labour Market, also building upon the EC SKILLSbySport4MED project.
  • SKILLS IN, FOR AND THROUGH SPORTS
    Placing Skills as a Key-Concept in the theoretical debate around the social role of sport through a focus on sport as an enabler of competencies and soft skills, and high-lighting that skills are a precondition for the world of sport in transition.
  • PRIVATE SECTOR AS A CO-DRIVER (SDG 17)
    The Private Sector (for profit and no-profit) is called more and more to participate actively to the process of sport as an enabler for social change in view of UN SDGs.  Entrepreneurship, CSR, Innovation and Technology/ICT are powerful vehicles to activate Social Change. A specific attention is given to using sport as a constitutive component of urban and not urban local systems.
  • SIDE EVENTS on SDGs
    For each SDG sport has a specific potential to activate inititiatives which may contribute to their achievement: https://sdgs.un.org . Sport can help to make the SDGs a Reality!
  • DETECTING AND REPORTING CRIMES (SDG 16)
    (in cooperation with UNODC Safeguarding Sport from Corruption and Crime Program).
    Focusing on detection and reporting as a crucial phase of prevention and countering policies, in view of a more substantive role of LEAs and a more fertile cooperation with Sport Bodies, a strategic use of Reporting Mechanisms is promoted with reference to Match-Fixing, Organized-Crime Infiltration, Abuses and other Crimes in the Sport Sector, also building upon the EC AMFF, TPREG and AMATT projects.  Reference is made also to KAP UNESCO Action III Guide Lines, Council of Europe Magglingen Convention, IPACS TF4. Sport Integrity is a precondition to ensure the social role of sport.

If you are interested to attend, please send an email to info@sport4impact.net

Location:
Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityGood HealthPartnerships for the GoalsQuality EducationReduced Inequalities
April 20, 2021
News / Interviews

Green Sports Alliance and Arc announce new “playing for the next generation” campaign

New initiative will bring leadership tools and recognition to sports teams and leagues in the global race for climate action, resiliency, and justice.   […]

Climate ActionInnovation and Infrastructure
April 17, 2021
News / Interviews

Italian Open for green and eco-sustainability

Together for the “green” Italian Golf Federation and DS Automobiles, a French car brand, announce a three-year partnership also under the banner of eco-sustainability […]

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April 15, 2021
News / Interviews

NFT Boom Risks Derailing Sports’ Environmental Efforts

By Aidan O’Connor The recent surge of profitable non-fungible token issuances tied to art, music, memorabilia and other intellectual property has put the NFT market firmly […]

Source: Yahoo Sports
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