The global sporting landscape is facing an unprecedented climate reckoning.
For decades, mega sporting events have operated under a model of unchecked expansion, drawing millions of international spectators, triggering massive infrastructure projects, and leaving substantial carbon footprints in their wake.
However, as the impacts of climate change, such as severe heatwaves, extreme rainfall, and rising sea levels that directly threaten grassroots and elite sports infrastructures, accelerate, the governing bodies of global athletics are under immense pressure to reform.
At the forefront of this shift is FIFA, which has committed to a structured pathway aimed at reducing its environmental impact, targeting a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.
