FFF Newsletter: May round-up
USMNT player Mark McKenzie joined us as a founding Champion for our World Cup 2026 project.
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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.
On World Football Day, we announced the launch of our 2026 World Cup project, featuring current USMNT player Mark McKenzie. Plenty more to come - stay tuned!
Players from our Common Goal Champions Community are still looking for fans to complete their survey for football fans - please help them out by completing the survey.
Elliot is chairing a panel at the upcoming Earthfest event in Kings Cross, London. It's free to join, so come along!
Elliot also contributed to the Fair Game Annual Conference at AFC Wimbledon, delivering a workshop on embedding sustainability in football governance.
Dan, our Comms Manager, and our player champion Sofie Junge Pedersen appeared to talk about sport and climate on the UCL Generation One podcast, a climate podcast hosted by world-leading climate scientists at University College London.
Dan also spoke at a recent workshop at the University of Cambridge, titled "Climate Education Beyond the Academy: What can Geographers Offer?".
FFF were in attendance at Brentford vs Fulham with our friends (re)boot who were launching a sustainable shirt release.
We ran a session for our Common Goal Community Champions looking at the relationship between environmental and financial sustainability, featuring guest speakers from Coutts and the University of Cambridge.
On our blog, we reflected on the open letter written by incoming COP 30 president André Corrêa do Lago, what it means for football, and how the language of football is being used in the climate change conversation.
FOOTBALL & CLIMATE CHANGE
There has been lots of movement within the sector...
New research was published which investigates the carbon footprint of football fans, and how environmental consciousness affects the emissions from fan travel.
Liverpool FC unveiled the world’s first carbon-neutral football shirt with Direct Air Capture (DAC) company 1PointFive.
Brentford is releasing bespoke, sustainably upcycled club shirts made from previous seasons’ kit created in collaboration with (re)boot and London-based designers ROW_____Z.
Building on the momentum of 2024, UEFA announced that they will implement a record 315 sustainability activities across four club competition finals.
On the other hand, Cool Down released a new report detailing the climate costs of UEFA's growth plan.
A briefing note designed to help outline steps for sports organisations to assess their impacts on biodiversity has been produced by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the University of Oxford.
Claire Poole, CEO of Sport Positive, outlined 4 ways fans can go green for the UEFA Women's EURO 2025 in a new column in Forbes.
A new open-access research paper explored how athletic departments, leagues, and sport organisations can align environmental and commercial goals, without compromising either.
Last week at São Paulo Futebol Clube's Morumbis Stadium, Earth FC hosted the first EcoFut Summit, bringing together clubs, federations, content creators and the Ministry of Sports to explore how football can drive climate action.
A new study investigated whether audiences would view athletes as credible on environmental issues - answer: yes!
CLIMATE STATS
Our mission is urgent. Here's why.
Temperature limits the world agreed to avoid are looming into view - the global temperature has been 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial average for almost two years now.
A Swiss village was wiped off the map by a glacier, with rapid thaw due to climate change making hazards such as this harder to predict.
Fish similar to those made famous by the movie Finding Nemo are shrinking to cope with marine heatwaves, a study has found.
A new point in history has been reached, scientists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides.