On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia were announced as the 2034 World Cup host following a corrupt bidding process. 💰💨 Thankfully, a growing number of athletes are calling out polluters using sport as a promotional platform. Here's Wycombe Wanderers player David Wheeler on LBC. 👏

🏃‍♂️ 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. Running is the ultimate eco-friendly form of travel, producing zero emissions. Given this, promoting a budget airline like Wizz Air at a running event is very strange, but that didn't stop the Hackney Half Marathon. 🏆

🎲 𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. Communities across Guyana are rightly concerned about the risks of ExxonMobil's offshore oil exploration. It likely came as a surprise for cricket fans that the inaugural Guyana Global Super League tournament was partnering with the oil giant. 😕

🏆 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿. After carefully counting all your votes, FIFA’s deal with Saudi Aramco has come out on top! FIFA – Kudos for demonstrating exactly how to alienate and endanger your fans, all for the sake of oil money. 🫰🎉

As the climate crisis worsens, FIFA made the world's biggest oil company the sponsor of the world's biggest event... A worthy winner of the Own Goal Award in this year's Bad Sport Awards 🏆

For years, airline giants like Emirates, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways have dominated sports sponsorships❗ Now, 🇸🇦 is entering the game with its state-owned carriers: السعودية and the recently launched Riyadh Air✈ Read the full story👇 playthegame.org/news/riyadh-ai…

Unsustainable tournament expansion 🔥 Climate wrecking sponsors 🔥 Huge travel demands ✈️ Unaffordable ticket prices 💵 Who does the FIFA Club World Cup benefit? Bad for the planet! Bad for players! Bad for fans!🔥✈️💵

Isn't it nice to see football not being used as a promotional tool by companies that cause environmental and social harm? 🥹

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 A community of Kichwa Indigenous Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon basin have passed a groundbreaking resolution against the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in sport 🏅 cooldownclimate.org/latest/indigen…

Shoutout to the Amazon people for rejecting fossil fuel sponsorship in sports! 🌍💪 As Africans, we can also say NO to the greenwashing and sportswashing by TotalEnergies (AFCON). We love football, but hate pollution! #KickTotalOutOfAfrica #AFCON2025 #KickPollutersOut

.TotalEnergies, your time is up. You're offside with the planet!🟥 #1OOYearsOfPollution #KickTotalOutOfAfrica

Yesterday, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner teetered on the brink due to extreme heat at the Australian Open. Yet, the tournament still advertises the polluting industries that profit from business-as-usual warming. #AusOpen – climate leadership means dropping Emirates and Kia.

Is English football sliding into a climate doom loop? ➿ In a brilliant new piece, Freddie Daley of Cool Down explores how extreme weather is reshaping the game—from flooded pitches to financial turmoil. 🧵 1/7 Full piece: footballandclimatechange.substack.com/p/is-english-f…

Hey CAF_Online - here's a version where your sportswashing is a bit clearer. Watch until the end. x #KickTotalOutOfAfrica #TotalEnergiesAFCON2025 #KickTotalOutOfAfrica Fossil Free Football 🌍⚽️

🥳💥 HUGE WIN for #StopRosebank! Massive congrats to all who have campaigned tirelessly for this. This is a breakthrough for public over private interests. For a liveable future over fossil fuel profits. Now, the government must cancel Rosebank and ban new oil and gas for good.

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 Football finds itself offside in the climate crisis. ⚽️ 🟥 In the first-ever industry-wide global assessment, climate scientist Dr. Stuart Parkinson uncovers the sport’s massive pollution problem. Full report: newweather.org/wp-content/upl…

Yet, football itself is making the crisis worse. The study reveals that the sport emits 64-66 million tonnes of CO2e per year—more many countries' annual emissions.

The worst offender? 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽. These polluting deals account for 75% of football’s total emissions. Polluting companies regularly use football to promote high-carbon lifestyles like excessive air travel to billions of fans.

Global football is fuelling climate breakdown🔥 Responsible for the same emissions as: - Burning 150 million barrels of oil each year🛢️ - The nation of Austria🇦🇹 The biggest culprit? Sponsorship🤬 Football must red card its polluting sponsors to protect people and planet!

🎿❄️ Vasaloppet is Sweden’s most iconic ski race. Yet, despite the climate crisis already impacting snow sports, the race continues to promote polluting companies. Here's how New Weather Sweden are taking on sportswashing at Vasaloppet.🧵 Visit: Vasaloppet2025.se