This article was written by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog.
Sports are playing an important role at the UN Climate Change Conference, aka COP21, which started Monday and runs until December 11 in Paris. The highlight will be the Sustainable Innovation in Sport symposium on December 7, which will certainly focus on the power of sport to change macro behaviors. Readers of GreenSportsBlog certainly are aware of the ways teams, venues, universities, non-profits and corporations have worked to “green the games.”
One key constituency in the sports world has largely been absent from our pages–athletes.