SAVE THE FUTURE
OF SPORT
UK Sport's Environmental Sustainability Strategy (2023-2025) is the first step in ensuring that the next generation of champions — the Team of Tomorrow — continue to deliver more extraordinary sporting moments.
Climate change is impacting all of us; our athletes' health, competition and training spaces:
In 2019, the Rugby World Cup experienced pacific typhoons.
In 2020, the Australian Tennis Open was disrupted by devastating bush fires.
Long distance running events at Tokyo 2020 were moved north of the capital because the summer weather made the races impossible.
One in four football league teams in England can expect partial or total annual flooding of their stadia by 2050.
Of 19 previous winter sports host locations, only ten will still be reliable in 2050 and just six in 2080.
With no action, our Team of Tomorrow is under threat but together, we can protect our future legacy.
This is for our country and our planet.
For the optimists, the believers, the achievers.
This is for the future history-makers;
Delivering the next decade of extraordinary sporting moments.
This is for the coming generation.
And the generation after that.
This is for the
Our aim is to leverage the enormous reach and momentum of elite sport to drive meaningful climate action.
The Team of Tomorrow strategy builds environmental sustainability into our practices and operations, so we become a model for the UK sporting system to follow.
We must be champions for the planet.
With no action, the Team of Tomorrow and their training and competition spaces are under threat.
Thomas Young, Sprinter
Leisure centres can contribute up to 40% of a council's direct carbon emission due to heating and lighting large open spaces and water, as well as heating the water for swimming pools and showering facilities.
We need a bigger focus on renewable energy.
Ellie Challis, Swimmer
Collaboration and co-operation are mission critical to save our sports.
Championing sustainable practices is everyone's job, regardless of role.
We ask that you be curious, be bold, engage with support and engage with us as we all progress on our sustainability journey.
This strategy is here to help you take action for the Team of Tomorrow.
We're seeing more extreme weather between flooding and high temperatures, which is affecting racing and training.
Ben Cumberland, Triathlete
This is a marathon not a sprint.
We're here every step of the way to:
- Celebrate successes
- Share inspiration
- Track our collective progress.
Places we love are experiencing sewage being poured into the water. I see this regularly where I train but it's worsened over the last few years. What's enjoyable or safe about sailing in that?
Megan Farrer, Sailor
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