Liverpool, Real Betis and FIS earn Sport Positive awards

LONDON :Premier League champions Liverpool and Spanish soccer club Real Betis were amongst the winners of Sport Positive awards, announced during a two-day sports sustainability summit.

Liverpool's Red Way initiative won the Transformation category while Real Betis's Sin Azul No Hay Verde (Without Blue There Is No Green) project scooped the Best Campaign award.

Winners of 12 categories were announced in London during the two-day Sport Positive Summit in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Olympic Committee.

"These winners exemplify what's possible when sport steps up as a force for good," Sport Positive founder Claire Poole said.

"As climate impacts escalate, their bold action, innovation, and leadership are not only safeguarding sport's future but also delivering positive outcomes for communities and the planet."

More than 500 industry leaders from some of the world's biggest events, franchises, NGOs and local community initiatives gathered to debate how the sports industry can meet the growing challenge of climate change and become more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Sport is increasingly in the firing line of climate change with intense heat and storms impacting this year's FIFA Club World Cup in the United States and the Wimbledon tennis Championships experiencing their hottest ever opening day.

Traditional Alpine ski resorts are also threatened with closure by a warming climate while former IOC president Thomas Bach said as few as 10 nations might be capable of hosting a Winter Olympics by 2040.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS), in partnership with Green Producers Club, developed a CO2 Calculator designed to help snow sports