Athletes Promote Climate Emergency Film to Raise Awareness

How sport can spread the word about the climate emergency

Athletes are helping to promote a new film about the crisis, reaching people ‘in a way that scientific reports never will’ It wasn’t so long ago that UK government briefings from Downing Street were essential viewing. Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were household names in Britain and there was a roaring trade in “next slide please” mugs. Four years after the final Covid lectern was put away comes an attempt to alert the public to another emergency – the climate and nature emerge...

By Tanya Aldred