Slippery Slopes Report

How climate change is threatening the Winter Olympics

Produced in partnership with Loughborough University London

and Protect Our Winters UK.

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Sports for Nature: Setting a Baseline

A UNEP report, authored by many SEG members:

Madeleine Orr, Jack Pippard, Ugo Arbieu, Jonathan Casper, Tim Kellison, Jordan Howell, Walker Ross, Jessica Murfree, Brian McCullough, and Sylvia Trendafilova.

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Research

Here, we cover all research related to sport and the natural environment: the recent, the relevant, the revolutionary.

Our goal is to synthesize sport ecology research in one place, so researchers and practitioners have access to the latest information.

If you would like more information about any of the studies included here, please contact our team!

For students: We will help you find the original work (full length texts). Get in touch.

For academics: if you've published something about - or related to - sport ecology and we've missed it, get in touch.

Note: The SEG does not own the intellectual rights nor copyright to the texts discussed herein. We share summaries of relevant research, and cite the original work, to make academic articles more accessible to people outside the academic community.

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Big picture: the impacts of sport on climate change

Preliminary estimates of annual carbon emissions from the sport sector suggest they could be as high as 350 million tCO2e. However, little is known about where those emissions come from, how they are calculated, and what is being done to reduce this footprint. Here, for the first time, the authors undertake a systematic, meta-analysis of peer-reviewed and gray literature on the impacts of sport emissions on climate. The findings indicate that research in this space took off i

Predicting climate impacts to FIFA World Cups and Olympic Games

By examining historical weather and air quality data as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th Assessment Report, this paper predicts climate conditions for the Olympic Games and FIFA Men's World Cups between 2022 and 2032. The intention behind this reseach was to provide these predictions for organizers to better plan for the impact of climate on their events and legacies in the long-term. The most immediate concern for all of these events will be extre

NEW! Research Round Ups.

Each time our team members attend an academic conference to present our work, we will aim to share a Round-Up of the relevant new research here.

First installment:

NASSM 2020 Research Round-Up