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Positioning For The Planet
Feb 2, 2023
Green Football Weekend took place between February 3 and 5 to raise awareness of climate change. It is also set to become an annual event and is backed by more than 30 major supporters, including the FA, the EFL, the WSL, the National Trust, RSPB and the Church of England.
Green Football Weekend took place between February 3 and 5 to raise awareness of climate change,
As part of the tournament, fans were able to go on the greenfootballweekend.com website and register “green goals” for their club through climate-friendly actions such as eating a vegetarian meal or turning a thermostat down one degree.
Green Football Weekend then saw the clubs join fans in implementing changes by making their fixtures “greener games”, with some teams wearing green armbands to show their support.
A dedicated website was set up to track pledges and to outline which teams are ‘winning’. The winning team will be awarded a dedicated Green Football Cup. The campaign will also features prizes like signed England shirts, tickets to Premier League games and BT Sport App passes.
Green Football Weekend is set to become an annual event and is backed by more than 30 major supporters, including the FA, the EFL, the WSL, the National Trust, RSPB and the Church of England.
Green Football Weekend organisers hope that if the "UK’s 36 million fans adopted three climate-friendly habits across the course of the 20-day tournament - reducing their shower time to four minutes, having two meat-free days per week and turning the thermostat down by 1 degree - fans could save more than 700 million kg CO2e, the equivalent of planting 11.78 million trees”
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