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When heading down the M62 to Old Trafford, travel emissions are estimated to be about 0.2 tonnes against the 1,400 tonnes calculated for their pre-season friendly in Bangkok. The Liverpool team bus arriving at Anfield for a match with Manchester United. In 2022, 19 of the 20 Premier League clubs hauled their players (and who knows how many backroom staff) onto planes to get their teams ready for the impending season – and to generate new revenue streams from excited fans overseas. What, then, of the English Premier League? And more specifically, what of its clubs’ pre-season jaunts to faraway lands, where they play in front of adoring fans against other clubs from the Premier League, for no sporting reason at all? At the other end of the scale, the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar didn’t prioritise sustainability highly enough to count its emissions properly.īut these are big, expansive, one-off events where athletes, support teams and delegates are expected to fly in from all corners of the globe for sporting spectacles that serve a wider social purpose.

The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham promised to leave a carbon-neutral legacy, but its efforts have still left a number of questions unanswered. In the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report, “the choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years” – and sport is not immune from the need for near-term action.

May 23 - As the call for sustainability grows ever stronger, sporting events are increasingly finding themselves being held to account.