Welcome to the Sustainability Maturity Tool Hub. This Sport England tool has been designed for all System Partners to support your environmental sustainability journey. The tool is intended to be adaptable to organisations of all sizes and types, and proportionate to your sphere of influence and available resource. Each topic contains a wide range of tools and resources to help you make progress and move you through the stages.
Carbon emissions: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Internal Action
- Basic knowledge of emissions
- Energy use reduction initiatives in place
External Action
- Learning from others
- Minimal involvement in emissions reduction efforts in the sector or locally
Carbon Emissions Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
Circular economy: Reducing material consumption and avoiding waste
Internal Action
- Basic waste actions, e.g. recycling bins in office, sports facilities, events
- Encouraging reduction of single-use plastics, e.g., reusable water bottles
External Action
- Learning from others
- Minimal involvement in waste reduction efforts in the sector or locally
Circular Economy Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
Biodiversity gain: Enhancing the variety of plant and animal life
Internal Action
- Basic knowledge of biodiversity loss
- Minimal consideration of impacts on wildlife or local species, e.g. pesticides and herbicides may be used
External Action
- Learning from others
- Minimal involvement in biodiversity gain initiatives in the sector or locally
Biodiversity Gain Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
Blue-green environment: Improved access to quality blue and green spaces where physical activity takes place
Internal Action
- Basic knowledge of the importance of blue-green environment quality
- Owned outdoor spaces are designed to be accessible
- Potential pollutants are still routinely used, e.g., single use plastic (incl. packaging), pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers
External Action
- Learning from others
- Minimal involvement with blue-green environment quality improvement initiatives in the sector or locally
Blue Green Environment Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
Tackling inequalities: Action to address climate-related inequalities/impact on under-served communities
Internal Action
- Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)-focused actions
- Separate environmental and EDI policy/strategy
- Limited knowledge of climate-related inequalities, or the environmental impact on under-represented or under-served communities
External Action
- Learning from others
- Minimal involvement in climate-related inequalities reduction efforts in the sector or locally
Tackling Inequalities Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
Enabler: Organisational knowledge and capacity
Support from the Sports Governance Academy on ESG is available.
Internal Action
- Basic understanding of sustainability and climate change
- Minimal engagement with available support and training
- No dedicated agenda lead
Enabler Actions
Suggested actions to help you progress along the maturity matrix
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