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The effects of climate change in sports<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I’ve already told some of you on LinkedIn<\/a> that I’m setting up an interview series about the effects of climate change in sports, and I’ve asked for your recommendations (which have been great by the way!), so it’s time for me to tell you why I’ve decided to focus on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s talk about how sports are being affected by climate change.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As you know, my work focuses on sports and sustainability, and also latterly Carbon Literacy Training for the Sports Sector<\/a>. Through talking to attendees of these training sessions, it got me thinking about the fact that much of the climate impact we hear about frequently seems to be abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we in the UK have mostly been spared the worst weather effects, comparatively little of what’s happening here makes it into the news. It’s an uncomfortable topic and for a wide variety of reasons, minimal light is being shed on the effects that we’re already seeing. This is a crying shame bearing in mind that being aware of the consequences frequently helps drive change. It remains a fact of life that if you don’t want to engage with the climate emergency, you can almost entirely avoid it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, I wanted to talk to people close to me. To find out how the changing climate is affecting their sport, their daily lives, their training sessions, their races, and the events they attend as fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who am I going to interview?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to be speaking to a wide range of people, each from a different sport. Hopefully there’s someone in there that each of us can identify with. Whether that’s because they’re talking about your favourite pastime, because they’re a dedicated fan, or because they have a similar training schedule to yours. The people I’m interviewing include those working in regional sports organisations, both professional & recreational athletes, and dedicated sports fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope to explore all the ways we’re already seeing climate change affect the sports we love, and to pull these experiences together\u00a0in\u00a0one\u00a0place. I want to capture people’s experiences of climate change in sports first-hand, and to find out if some sports are feeling the effects quicker than others. Of course, we already know that certain locations are feeling the effects far more harshly than others, so how are these areas dealing with this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are the questions I\u2019m going to be asking?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this series about the effects of climate change on sports, you can expect to see questions like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n