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🚨BREAKING! 🚨
🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join.✍️
More 👉cooldownclimate.org/the-foss…
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Liverpool FC are the latest club to partner with a polluting airline. ✈️
Here’s why we need to stop airlines buying our love of the beautiful game.👇
thefootballweek.com/2026/10/…
NEW PIECE: Football said it couldn’t afford to lose gambling sponsors.
Then twenty Premier League clubs started this season without a front shirt betting sponsor
Football did not collapse. So why do many view high-carbon industries so differently? 🧵
cooldownclimate.org/latest/t…
So what would a serious approach to restricting polluting sponsorship look like?
Not just shirts.
Kit, stadium naming rights, competition title rights and digital inventory - across the men’s and women’s game and the wider football pyramid.
cooldownclimate.org/the-foss…
The Premier League has shown that a sponsorship industry once described as indispensable can be phased out.
The question is whether it is ready to apply the same thinking to the industries whose products are endangering the future of the game.
cooldownclimate.org/latest/t…
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A recent sponsor switch-up for Liverpool FC is keeping polluting industries in the lead.
Here’s how we can change the game. ⚽️👇
theguardian.com/football/202…
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Another Vuelta a España stage has been adapted due to extreme weather.
And riders are rightly questioning this new normal.
theguardian.com/sport/2026/s…
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Extreme heat is causing serious injury and postponed seasons in grassroots football.
While elite football promotes harmful industries, players at other levels are left to suffer.
nytimes.com/athletic/7528820…
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Stage 3 of the Vuelta a España race was cancelled yesterday as extreme weather threatened rider safety. 🌧️
As climate chaos impacts cycling’s biggest events, polluting sponsors remain in the lead. 🚴♂️
cyclingweekly.com/racing/vue…
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Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 opening game on Sunday was relocated due to extreme heat.⚽️
Meanwhile PSG’s owners are still one of the world’s most prolific fossil fuel producers. 🛢️
theguardian.com/football/202…
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🚨 Petition: Infantino must go.
Under Gianni Infantino, football's crowning tournament has become a political vehicle and advertising platform for polluters and the power hungry.
⏪ Let's revisit some of his lowlights. 🧵 1/5
Sign: change.org/infantino-out-now
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Football carries many hidden environmental costs.
And moving a player between clubs can shed light on the wider issues the game has with carbon emissions. ⚽️
football365.com/news/hidden-…
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The controversial and failed bid by FIFA president Infantino to sell stakes in future football tournaments goes beyond football, and raises an important question: who does sport really belong to?
theconversation.com/who-does…
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🌡️ Over TWO THIRDS of the UK is in drought.
Sports pitches have hardened while athletes are struggling to perform in the heat.
Yet, decision makers continue to bury their heads in the arid sand by partnering with polluting sponsors. 📺💨
An explainer on sportswashing. 1/2 🧵
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🚨 Grassroots football league forced to delay the start of its season due to heat wave.
While elite teams and Fifa promote fossil fuel interests, the climate crisis is having significant consequences for grassroots football.
Here's the state of play. 🧵
theguardian.com/environment/…
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🚨 Big Oil made $93 BILLION in three months.
As war pushed oil prices up and fossil-fuelled heatwaves, fires and drought devastated communities, oil giants cashed in. 🫰
And they’re still allowed to advertise like they’re part of the solution. 🧵
theguardian.com/business/ng-…
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This week, FIFA has come under fire for trying to privatise the World Cup.
And now, FIFA president Infantino aims to rush through an expansion of the 2030 World Cup to a whopping 64 teams.
This is a short-sighted, money-making, climate-wrecking plan. 🧵
theguardian.com/football/202…
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino is facing heavy leadership challenges after he ditched his controversial World Cup sell-off plan. 💰
Now more than ever, FIFA must drop their polluting sponsors and start protecting the future of football.
theguardian.com/football/202…
