Los Angeles fires should be ‘wake-up call’ to sports event organisers – experts
Data released on Friday by the European Copernicus Service showed that this year The average temperature will increase by 1.6C in 2024 Temperatures set new records compared to pre-industrial times. Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described recent temperature records as “climate collapse.”
Adapting to climate change is becoming increasingly important as warming reaches new heights, extreme weather events increase and most major countries fail to reduce emissions. The sports world must do the same.
“What we’re seeing now is that sports organizations are thinking less about ‘How do we stop climate change?’ and more about ‘How do we adapt to it?'” said Callison.
“So it would be best to reschedule, change the calendar of matches or fixtures, or even enhance the sports facilities themselves or consider where to place them.
“Any positive impact we are having may not be felt for generations, so it is important for sporting organizations to deal with the issues we are facing at the moment. The best case scenario at the moment is to expect the unexpected.”
The loyalty and dedication that some fans must show means that disruption to fixture schedules and major events has the potential to illustrate just how devastating the dangers posed by climate change really are.
Callison added: “Unfortunately, sometimes it takes events like this for people to really wrap their heads around climate change.”
“When people feel this and when they live it, they start to understand it. You can tell them that their life or their child’s life is going to be affected, but that doesn’t really turn it around, but talking about them most Favorite NFL teams having to play elsewhere might spark some interest.”
Sport has been at the culmination of many huge social changes throughout modern history, and it may be so again now.
“Coming together in a friendly manner, with goodwill and mutual understanding is a real benefit of events like this, and in many ways we need more of that,” Stewart-Frey said.
“We just have to figure out how to do it without destroying the environment at the same time.”
