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SandSI discusses how they will meet their 2021 objectives

SandSI outlines its plans for 2021

Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI) is honored and proud to announce that World Athletics has become a member of SandSI, which promises to drive forward the sustainability movement in sport.

Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI) are pleased to welcome Philippe Duperrex to the organisation as the newly appointed Secretary General.

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI), announced a joint strategic partnership to intensify the global sports industry’s health and safety response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sport and Sustainability International held its annual statutory meeting on 12 December 2020. The online event gave opportunity to the around 30 Members present to influence SandSI’s work. Apart from the approval of the yearly budget and activities, the Assembly unanimously re-elected Julia Palle and Vincent Gaillard, respectively, as President and Vice-President, as well as elected Ingrid Beutler as a new Board Member.

In 2015, English football got a glimpse of the future when the torrential rain accompanying storm Desmond saw Carlisle United’s Brunton Park flooded and the club forced out of the stadium for seven weeks, at considerable financial cost. SandSI (Sport and Sustainability International) caught up with David Goldblatt, football historian, author and moderator of the 1st Football4Climate webinar which featured professional players from Juventus, Sampdoria, Paris Saint-Germain.

On Monday, May 25th, Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI) launched Football4Climate, a programme that seeks to leverage the power of football to drive climate awareness and action amongst the wider football industry. A virtual gathering of football fans from 39 different clubs and 21 different countries, discussed the implications of climate change on football with an emphasis on the professional level and the players’ on-field perspectives.

The New York Yankees baseball organisation has made a strong play for a sustainable future by signing the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework.

The Arctic is one of Earth’s most fragile ecosystems, disproportionally affected by climate change and warming at twice the average rate of the rest of the planet.

After an initial webinar on ISO 20121, SandSI organised a second webinar entitled ‘watersport and sustainability’.

SandSI will be actively participating in conversations about sport and climate change at the Climate Week 2019 that will take place from 23 to 29 September in New York.

The Sustainability Report has teamed up with prominent actors in the sport and sustainability movement to call for the biggest clubs in European football to take climate action.

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz was named by the New York Yankees as its first Environmental Science Advisor yesterday.