On the occasion of the second SHARE 2.0 conference – the European Commission’s initiative to strengthen the role of sport in promoting environmental sustainability and positive social impact, held on Thursday 11 September, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) published a manifesto for environmental sustainability in sport.
The document, which follows on from the work of the ‘Green Sport’ expert group and the publication ‘Sport’s contribution to the European Green Deal: a sport sector playbook’ on the impact of sport on the climate, biodiversity and the environment, offers sport organisations and public decision-makers the chance to make a voluntary commitment to five measures.
For actors in the sport sector, such as clubs, federations and companies, this involves setting up an internal organisation responsible for sustainability, developing a strategy relating to the objectives of the ‘European Green Deal’, measuring and publishing the progress made each year, supporting cooperation and developing shared tools.
In addition, public authorities and funding bodies are being called upon to create monitoring bodies, to take action to make environmental sustainability an important criterion for funding, and also to give greater prominence to local disciplines, small-scale events and grassroots activities.
Organisations wishing to sign the manifesto are invited to register their signature online: https://aeur.eu/f/iez
The manifesto: https://aeur.eu/f/iey (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)