Business of Sport: how football can take action against climate change
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman & The Athletic's Matt Slater are joined by Dale Vince, owner of Forest Green Rovers Football Club who is at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Dale's side are recognised by FIFA as being the greenest football club in the world - we’ll discuss how sport can take action against climate change..
And we are joined by Rob Sullivan, CEO of The Football Foundation to tell us about the £205million worth of Government funding the charity received last week to invest in grassroots football in England and how their work is linked to the 2030 UK and Ireland World Cup bid.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the Business and Sport podcast on The Athletic. |
| 0:17.6 | Matt Slated with us as usual. |
| 0:19.4 | Coming up today with the COP 26 Climate Summit |
| 0:22.2 | taking place in Glasgow, we're joined by Dale Vince, chairman of the football club, |
| 0:26.8 | recognised by FIFA as being the greenest in the world. We'll discuss how sports in general |
| 0:32.8 | can take action against climate change. And we're also joined by Rob Sullivan, CEO of the Football Foundation, to tell us about the |
| 0:39.5 | 205 million pounds worth of government funding the charity received last week to invest in |
| 0:45.8 | grassroots football in England and also how their work is linked to the 2030 UK and |
| 0:51.9 | Ireland World Cup bid. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you. the 2030 UK and Ireland World Cup bid. So the COP 26 Climate Summit is taking place in Glasgow this week. |
| 1:07.9 | World leaders and key players in business are discussing the global |
| 1:11.7 | response to climate change and sport is very much on the agenda with owners, chief execs of sports |
| 1:17.7 | clubs, federations and related businesses, all in attendance, as is our first guest, Dale Vins. |
| 1:24.1 | Dale is chairman of English League Two-Side Forest Green Rovers, |
| 1:31.4 | recognised by FIFA as the world's greenest football club, |
| 1:34.1 | and also founder of Ecotricity, |
| 1:37.2 | built as Britain's greenest energy supplier. |
| 1:41.1 | Dale, first of all, is it a good thing or a bad thing that whenever we look at sustainability in sport, you're the first person we come to. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah, I know really. |
| 1:51.4 | But I get the question. |
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