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The Great Run Company
2024 Environmental Report
Sport’s Role in Climate Action
As the world faces the urgent challenge of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, all sectors, including sports, must contribute to ambitious and effective climate action. Event organisers hold a unique position to lead by example. Sport events contribute to climate change through travel, energy use, waste generation, food, apparel, and other associated activities, as this report will go on to describe. However, they also have the power to drive meaningful climate action.
Taking Responsibility Measuring, reducing, and reporting their climate footprint to align with national and international goals and commitments.
In 2018, UN Climate Change launched the Sports for Climate Action Framework with two overarching objectives: achieving a clear trajectory for the global sports community to combat climate change and using sports as a unifying tool to drive climate awareness and action. When signing up to this framework, organisers commit to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement of climate neutrality by 2050, with their climate efforts also contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.
Incentivising Action
Inspiring change within and beyond the sporting community.
Driving Awareness Using their platform to educate and engage participants, spectators, suppliers, and key stakeholders about climate action.
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