Sport’s carbon footprint is global bad news

(Climate News Network, 22 Jun 2020) The result of sport’s carbon footprint is worldwide damage. And global heating is itself penalising players and fans alike.

The amount of damage caused by global sport’s carbon footprint and the other forms of climate pollution sport produces matches the havoc resulting from the activities of entire countries, a new study by a British journalist says.

Emissions from global sport fuelling the climate emergency could, at the low end of estimates, equal those of a nation like Bolivia, but could reasonably also match those of nations like Spain or Poland, which consume much more fossil fuel.

But the climate crisis is in its turn exacting a heavy price from the sporting world. The study says that by 2050:

A quarter of English league football grounds will be at risk from flooding every season
One in three British Open golf courses will be damaged by rising sea levels
Globally, half of previous Winter Olympic cities will be unreliable as winter sports hosts.

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