Sustainability in Event Management

The United Nations Sports for Climate Action works towards two overarching goals:

1. Achieving a clear trajectory for the global sports community to combat climate change, through commitments and partnerships according to verified standards, including measuring, reducing, and reporting greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the well below 2-degree scenario enshrined in the Paris Agreement;
2. Using sports as a unifying tool to federate and create solidarity among global citizens for climate action.

World Obstacle is a signatory on the climate action for sport movement, which relies on the Sports for Climate Action Framework. This initiative aims at supporting and guiding sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.

We display climate leadership by engaging together in the climate neutrality journey. They are achieved by taking responsibility for our climate footprint, which incentivises climate action beyond our events and member organisations, and helps all of us step-up in the face of the threat posed by climate change.

Uniting behind a set of principles with other sports organisations and their communities, World Obstacle collaborates to position Obstacle Sports Events on the path of the low carbon economy that global leaders agreed on in Paris: Sports for Climate Action.

UN Climate Change welcomes the leadership of the International Olympic Committee in contributing to key areas of action within this movement. World Obstacle invites all national governing bodies, event producers, sports federations, leagues and clubs, to join and jointly develop the climate action agenda in Obstacle Sports, by leading and supporting working groups and by bringing expertise, tools and best practices into this framework.