Vestas 11th Hour Racing highlights the use of sailing to raise awareness on pressing environmental issues, and help to source solutions to mitigate the problem, while achieving exemplary race results.
This Guide is part of the "Sustainability Essentials" series developped by the IOC. It provides ideas to get you started and examples of progress from across the sporting community. It will help you to create a plastic plan and to work with suppliers, athletes and fans to reduce, reuse and recycle.
A UNOSDP overview outlining the contribution of sport to the SDGs.
This module is part of a 12 clips guide created by SportAccord, AISTS, PI, and IOC, to help us understand sustainability as a whole, and look at what it means. Data gathering Issues. Discussing the key priliminary issues like what to measure, where to measure and using results from similar events. This key point also disusses the different methods of data gathering (Quantitative and Qualitative data), validity, reliability and quality of data. (Video 11/12)
In 1994, the first FIS Mainau Manifesto was unanimously approved by the FIS Congress. This was a pioneering commitment to the responsibility of snow sports towards nature and sustainability. The Manifesto was motivated by the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development.
This module is part of a 12 clips guide created by SportAccord, AISTS, PI, and IOC, to help us understand sustainability as a whole, and look at what it means. This module starts with why we should measure the impact of a sport event and its importance, and the different stages of an event when it makes an impact. It introduces the key points of the following types of impact (economic, social and environment), data gathering and cost issues. (Video 7/12)
In the 21st Century, more and more businesses, organizations and individuals are building sustainability into their day- to-day decision making. Understanding how we do business is as important to today’s customer as what we do. There are a growing number of golf facilities that have found ‘being more sustainable’ meant doing things simpler, better and faster. The Sustainable Golf Development Voluntary Sustainability Standard (VSS) provides a framework for the effective integration of sustainability into the design and construction processes for golf projects.
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act seeks to achieve a globally significant set of national goals that would make Wales one of the most sustainable societies in the world. Although the legislation applies to named public bodies, as an organisation that receives public money and takes its obligations to society very seriously, we (Glamorgan County Cricket Club) voluntarily commit to these goals.
Annual Report (2013) of Arizona State University taking measurable steps to reduce consumption, maximize efficiency and to rethink products and processes by focusing on four key areas: climate neutrality; zero solid and water waste; active engagement; and principled practice.
World Sailing’s Sustainability Agenda 2030 sets out a bold ambition to achieve substantial change within the sport which can contribute actively to global sustainability. Sustainability Agenda 2030 is supported by World Sailing’s vision and mission which was launched in October 2016.