FFF Newsletter: April round-up

30 Apr

We send out a newsletter to the football and sustainability community every month - here’s a round-up of this month’s edition.

INSIDE FFF

We've been hustling behind the scenes to expand our services and make an even bigger impact. Here are some of our recent achievements and projects.

Players from our Common Goal Champions Community have created a survey for football fans - please help them out by completing the survey.
For Earth Day, we highlighted some of football's renewable energy wins.
Common Goal highlighted some of the members of the community who were involved with our Fields of Change handbook - the first-ever resource dedicated to integrating environmental sustainability into grassroots sport. You can download the free handbook here.
Our player Champions reflected on April's Champions Community session, in which we explored the topic of football and environmental justice.
Players from the Champions Community also came together to test each other for Earth Day on one big question - how much do they really know about the game's impact on the planet?
For Earth Day, the Premier League highlighted our recent workshop for Newcastle United's academy players.
We welcomed two new players to our Champions Community - Winonah Heatley and Hayley Ladd.

There has been lots of movement within the sector...

A new report found that climate change is increasing the risk of performance-slowing heat in UEFA Champions League matches.
New research from the Cool Down network and Pledgeball explored the issue of 'stranded fans' - when football fans across the English leagues are unable to rely upon public transport to get them home after a fixture.
Fiorentina gave its staff 570 hours of sustainability training, embedding sustainability across the whole organisation.
Congratulations to Northampton Town, who won this year's EFL Green Club award. Their ‘Cobblers Tackle Food Waste’ initiative raises awareness on how to reduce levels of food waste across Northamptonshire.
UN Climate Change launched a new, free online training course designed to support sports organisations in adopting and implementing sustainable practices.
MLS celebrated Earth Day with the 8th annual Greener Goals Week of Service.
Wrexham were criticised for flying to their League 1 away match back in early April.
CLIMATE STATS

Our mission is urgent. Here's why.

Wales' future generations commissioner has warned that the country faces an 'unrecognisable future' due to the risks of climate change and biodiversity loss.
India and Pakistan are already facing extremely high temperatures in what are becoming 'new normal' heatwave conditions.
The UK has seen the warmest start to May on record, the Met Office said, taking it past the previous 1 May record high of 27.4C at Lossiemouth in Moray in 1990.
The climate crisis is threatening indigenous traditions in Canada, due to shorter winters and thinning ice.

Bradley Sheath