Sports organisations commit to safeguarding nature under new framework
Twenty-three sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, signed the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework today. The signatories pledge to adhere to four key principles that will safeguard nature and contribute to the new global goals for biodiversity, which governments are expected to agree to later this week at the Convention on Biological Diversity 15th Conference of the Parties meeting (COP15) in Montreal.
Co-created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the IOC and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Sports for Nature Framework aims to deliver transformative action for nature across sports, by 2030 and beyond.
The Framework brings together sports federations, leagues, clubs and events in a commitment to protect and avoid damage to important species and habitats, restore key ecosystems, create sustainable supply chains, and educate and inspire the wider sporting community to take action for nature.
In addition to the IOC, the founding signatories of the Framework include:
- The Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024
- Spanish Olympic Committee
- Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee
- International Canoe Federation (ICF)
- International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
- Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
- World Rowing (FISA)
- World Sailing
- World Skate Federation
- International Orienteering Federation (IOF)
- International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF)
- SAMBO International Federation (FIAS)
- World University Games (FISU)
- World Squash Federation (WSF)
- England Squash
- AlUla Sports Club
- Forest Green Rovers
- The Ocean Race
- We Play Green
- E1 Series
- Extreme E
- Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB)
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