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Funding approved for EUSA Institute projects in 2023

  • Universiade

The European Union has approved funding for two projects by the European University Sports Association (EUSA) and its institute as the coordinator.

Games.The last project is titled "European Week of Winter Sport" which will involve raising awareness about climate


Owen Lloyd: Messi in Miami - How the Sunshine State has brought a smile back to football's favourite

  • Inside the Blogs

Lionel Messi is, for vast amounts of fans, the greatest football player of all time but his recent spell at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) saw him go underappreciated. To see the magisterial Argentine enjoying life in Miami should be welcomed with open arms, despite the naysayers bashing Major League Soccer for its quality.

So it's hard to adapt to this climate, but I talk with the other players who have been here their whole


athletics leaders warn of existential threat and against sport "talking two different languages" on climate

  • Athletics

talking two different languages" in search of continual improvement in competition while combatting climate

discussion with officials from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu entitled "Sport on the Climate

shared.Athletics leaders from Cook Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu shared the impact of climate

run and you've got industries, and those industries generally develop carbon [emissions] that affect climate

Today when we are talking about a way forward with sports and athletics in general, we've got a climate

Coe admitted on Friday climate change is likely to reschedule major athletics events, including endurance


Coe warns climate change may impact scheduling of major athletics competitions

  • Budapest 2023

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has admitted here climate change may impact the scheduling of

Delegates at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow - commonly known as COP26 -

them "greenwashing exercises".International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has admitted climate

Sebastian Coe expressed his lack of confidence in Governments' ability to meet climate change targets

where you are not putting the athletes at risk" ©Getty ImagesHe also admitted that the realities of climate

Climate change is affecting everybody, whether it is forest fires, flooding, landslides, we've got problems


New climate fund established as Swiss Olympic extends deal with travel agent Globetrotter

  • EOC

Swiss Olympic has announced that it has extended its partnership with travel company Globetrotter for a further seven years.

at the House of Sports in Ittigen - the current headquarters of Swiss Olympic.A new "Swiss Olympic Climate

part of the partnership, with the aim of providing funding for sporting organisations to implement climate-friendly

arrangements for Swiss Olympic's teams ©Getty ImagesGlobetrotter is expected to recommend the Swiss Olympic Climate

Fund in a bid to contribute to climate protection for greenhouse gas emissions generated when travelling


Infantino criticised for using private jet to fly around Pacific during FIFA Women's World Cup

  • World Cup

footballer and human rights activist Craig Foster has criticised FIFA for insufficient action against climate

year's men's FIFA World Cup, in failing to fulfil obligations under the United Nations (UN) Sport for Climate

True to form, FIFA are signatories to the UN Sport for Climate Action Framework, which compels them not

just to create sustainable events, but actually to advocate for climate action in the Paris Agreement

OFCFoster described Australia and New Zealand 2023 as a missed opportunity to step up the fight against climate

watching this World Cup and this was an opportunity to say to all of them, football globally stands for climate


World Athletics reveals plans to reduce Budapest 2023's environmental impact

  • Budapest 2023

World Athletics has revealed a series of initiatives it claims will help reduce the environmental impact of its World Championships here, including the installation of water refill stations for broadcasters and media personnel.

sustainability initiative for sports organisations, but some scientists have argued its impact in tackling climate

Monday (August 31) featuring members from five Pacific island nations most at risk of the impact of climate

change, covering "sport on the climate change front lines".Another is planned for August 25 to discuss


David Owen: Is the writing on the wall for multi-sports events?

  • Inside the Blogs

Are multi-sports events dying? It seems a valid time to pose the question, with the Commonwealth Games plainly struggling and global sports audiences wallowing in a year of exceptional single-sports competitions, ranging from the Ashes to the Women’s World Cup, both swimming and athletics World Championships and, soon, the Rugby World Cup.

intervals between Games.But then the selection process for choosing hosts was reformed.The harsher economic climate


Former LA sheriff claims city is in "worst place possible" for 2028 Olympics

  • Los Angeles 2028

Former Los Angeles sheriff Alex Villanueva has warned that the city is in the "worst place possible to get ready" for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games due to law enforcement concerns.

You have a horrendous political climate where every politician was jumping over themselves in the summer

train them properly, and both the LAPD and the LA sheriffs are ill-prepared because of this political climate



Brisbane expected to have eco zone in 2032 Athletes Village

  • Brisbane 2032

The site of the Athletes' Village at the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane is set to include an eco district with abundant vegetation.

near the river.It is anticipated that local timber will be widely used in building to help towards a climate


DOSB launches online forum which could spearhead Olympic bid

  • EOC

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) will this week launch a series of online discussions which officials hope will help boost a future German Olympic bid.

The online launch is set for tomorrow (August 10) with a discussion entitled "Your Planet, Your Climate

(August 10), asks the question "How should the world's largest sporting event be designed to be as climate-friendly

chance if Olympic and Paralympic Games are consistently linked with the social transformation fields of climate

We can create climate-neutral sporting events if all players pull together and we don't forget that every


Paris 2024 “setting clear pathway” on sustainability for future Games, claims Prince Albert II

  • Paris 2024

Organisers of next year's Olympics and Paralympics in Paris are creating new standards in terms of sustainability and “setting a clear pathway” for future Games, according to Prince Albert II of Monaco.

 This target reflects both the IOC’s Olympic Agenda 2020+5 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

nbsp;"The same contract also obliges Games organisers to encourage stakeholders to take action against climate


Lars Haue-Pedersen: A call to rights holders and organisers of major events - don't repeat old mistakes

  • Inside the Blogs

Sometimes the hard and unfiltered truth is better delivered by an outsider.

comments from the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games organisers about their claim of staging the "first ever climate

Games" and talked about hypocrisy.While Sir Bob might not be an expert on neither major events nor climate

Such accountability is expected by both media and the wider public as the issues related to climate change

- trick of promising to plant thousands of trees to compensate, from a purely climate impact point of

local economic development, inspire positive ecological change at a local level and promote better climate