'The status quo can't be an option': Sport England funding awards to depend on efforts to tackle climate crisis

Stuart Stone
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Sports body responsible for £300m of public money each year to ask sports to prove they are taking steps to tackle climate impacts

Sport England will ask sporting organisations to do more to tackle the climate crisis as a condition of receiving public funding, the national body for sport and physical activity in England has announced....

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