'Nailing the lid on its own coffin': Why snow sports should ditch their carbon-heavy sponsors

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View of the Alps from Aiguille du midi, Chamonix, France | Credit: iStock
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View of the Alps from Aiguille du midi, Chamonix, France | Credit: iStock

As winter sports become increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts, a new report is calling for 'ironic' sponsorship deals with fossil-fuel giants to be axed

The future of skiing and snow sports is being threatened by its own sponsors, whose emissions are fuelling the very climate change that is shortening traditional ski seasons and this year caused temperatures...

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