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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Rachel Steinberg

UK Sport’s new sustainability targets vital to mitigate climate change – chief

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UK Sport chief executive Sally Munday insists ambitious new sustainability targets set by her organisation are necessary to mitigate climate change, which she believes “threatens the existence of high-performance sport itself”.

The government agency, responsible for high-performance sport in the UK, has outlined plans for both British Olympic and Paralympic sport and major events to have a net positive impact on the environment by 2040 as part of its ‘Team of Tomorrow’ strategy.

To achieve its ambitions, UK Sport has pledged to work with national governing bodies (NGBs) over the two-year period covered by the new strategy to identify each sport’s unique challenges, with an objective for every NGB to have a sustainability action plan in place by 2025.

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