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COP24: Can sport become a ‘climate leading’ sector?0
- Editor's Pick, IN FOCUS
- December 11, 2018
A number of sports organisations have committed to the UNFCCC’s Sport for Climate Action Framework, but what does the sector have to do to become a genuine climate leader?
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To what extent does air quality impact athlete performance?0
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- November 13, 2018
Air pollution is responsible for the deaths of 7 million people per year – quickly becoming a modern health crisis. Now the IAAF is attempting to capture some serious data to see if and how it impacts athlete performance
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How Corpus Christi Yacht Club set the benchmark for World Sailing events 0
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- November 8, 2018
At the World Sailing Awards 2018, Corpus Christi Yacht Club became the first winner of its Sustainability Award. Its efforts to green the Youth Sailing World Championships (hosted between 14-21 July 2018) caught the eye of judges, and was referenced by the governing body’s sustainability manager Dan Reading as the “benchmark” for future World Sailing
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How cities are using sport to accelerate sustainable development 0
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- November 2, 2018
Cities are increasingly using sports events – and sport generally – to strategically improve social, environmental and economic conditions. Dakar will have the opportunity to do the same ahead of the Youth Olympic Games in 2022
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Does professional sport have a role to play in integrating refugees?0
- Editor's Pick, IN FOCUS
- October 15, 2018
Another refugee team with compete at the 2020 Olympic Games, but a conference in Lausanne next month will explore what more sport can do to integrate displaced individuals
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Danish Olympic Committee hopes to ‘influence’ sport with human rights and sustainability expertise 0
- IN FOCUS
- October 2, 2018
After partnering with Amnesty International, the committee hopes to use its insight to help decision makers choose appropriate hosts for major sporting events
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