The Climate Change Olympics
Temperatures soar in Tokyo as the Olympics finally get underway. News agencies are reporting how athletes are preparing to compete in extreme heat, echoing warnings the Rings of Fire report. What can climate diplomacy learn from the Olympic Games? A BASIS opinion piece by Dom Goggins As the Tokyo Olympics finally gets underway, leading news […]
Embedding Sustainability In Your Culture
Sally Cornelius, BASIS Executive Board member and co-founder of The Happy Ocean Company, writes about embedding a sustainable culture. Sally helps organisations understand stakeholder perceptions of their sustainability strategy and assists them with embedding their polices and driving about change. The increasing global awareness of the climate crisis has inevitably put the spotlight on how […]
The Man Who Saved Golf
Steve Isaac, R&A Director of Sustainability, retired last week. We pay tribute to his contribution to golf’s sustainability, the legacy he leaves, and presented him with BASIS Honourary Life Membership By Dom Goggins, BASIS Sustainability in sport is seen as a relatively new and growing field. It will inevitably be an entire industry before long. […]
A Build Back Better Budget?
A BASIS Opinion Piece by Dom Goggins. The Chancellor’s Budget can help sport to survive and bounce back in the short term, but is a missed opportunity to help sport to build back better in the long term. A Budget To Build Back Better? Budgets come with a fanfare, designed to give the government of […]
BBC Sport Covers BASIS Consultation
BBC Sport’s David Lockwood covered BASIS’ plan to write to Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the opportunity sport has to build back better from COVID-19. Click here to read on the BBC website. Professional athletes should be given sustainability training to learn about the issues facing our planet, climate change experts say. They want sportspeople […]
GB Olympic & Paralympic Stars Join Call Tackle Climate Crisis
More than 300 British Olympians and Paralympians have called on the Government put climate change at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, GB rower and friend of BASIS Melissa Wilson urges a “truly green approach” in pursuit of “the ultimate legacy: a safe, healthy Earth for all”. […]
Sustainability for Sports Organisations: New BASIS Course
Sustainability for Sports Organisations: New BASIS Course BASIS is pleased to announce a new online course – Sustainability for Sports Organisations – to be run by Dr Russell Seymour, launched in Autumn 2020. COVID-19 is a grave crisis, but it does not make urgent issues including climate change, food waste and single-use plastic go away. […]
Can Football Build Back Better?
#BuildBackBetter – It’s the term that has been used across many industries and governments over the last few months since the Coronavirus pandemic shut down so many aspects of our daily lives. And sport was no exception. The sporting calendar decimated in a matter of weeks and, in the world of football? Virtually every league […]
Russell Seymour: Scientific Backing for Reusables Post-COVID
BASIS CEO Russell Seymour highlights advice on reusables in sport after COVID-19 by Russell Seymour Millions of pieces of single use plastics have been removed from sports venues and operations – they would otherwise have gone to waste; hopefully recycled, possibly burned, at worst landfilled. The question of whether COVID-19 has put this fantastic progress […]
Cyclist Magazine: Riding Into A The Storm
BASIS’ Dom Goggins quoted in Cyclist analysis of the impact of climate change on pro cycling, after the 2019 Tour de France and World Championships are disrupted Perhaps Julian Alaphilippe was about to pull off a rousing comeback on Stage 19 of the Tour de France to give France its long-awaited winner. Or we […]
