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🚨BREAKING! 🚨 🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown. Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join.✍️ More 👉cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-fre…

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is facing heavy leadership challenges after he ditched his controversial World Cup sell-off plan. 💰 Now more than ever, FIFA must drop their polluting sponsors and start protecting the future of football.  theguardian.com/football/2026/…

⏪ This week Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed in 34C heat at the Memphis Classic. This marks the third high-profile heat safety incident in elite tennis this year. 🧵 bbc.com/sport/tennis/a…

📢 If you know an athlete that would like to use their platform to affect change, share the application link with them or tag them in a comment on this post. 2/2 leadership.climate.ox.ac.uk/join-us/

Athletes are among society's most influential. Yet, despite caring deeply about the climate crisis, many feel unable to speak out. In a pioneering new programme, Oxford University is helping athletes step into climate leadership. 👇 🧵 1/2 cooldownclimate.org/latest/why-ath…

🚨 The World Cup is officially for sale. 🏆💰 Fifa President Gianni Infantino is trying to sell a 20% stake in Fifa competitions to private investors. Here's how FIFA corruption, a strange orange man and petrostates all intersect. 🧵 bbc.com/sport/football…

The sporting world eventually recognised that tobacco advertising was damaging. 🚭📺 The same question now faces fossil fuels. Read Peter Crisp and Andrew Simms' new opinion piece on Cool Down. 👇 cooldownclimate.org/latest/as-foss…

The irony is hard to ignore. Football is already being transformed by climate change. Matches are increasingly played in dangerous heat, players need cooling breaks, and grassroots clubs are dealing with flooded and damaged pitches. footballforfuture.org/pitchesinperil

NEW PIECE: Spain's World Cup quarter-final began with a minute's silence for victims of deadly wildfires. Seconds later, screens lit up with Aramco's branding. As fossil fuelled wildfires raged back home, Spain's young stars were used to sell more oil 🧵 cooldownclimate.org/latest/as-foss…

The 2026 World Cup directly increased demand for fossil fuels. In a new report, the World Cup is revealed to have increased the brand value of the world's largest fossil fuel company by 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗦 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀. Here's the story. 🧵 maaal.com/en/news/detail…

"Concerning the climate crisis... there is a rule of silence, as deeply rooted in cycling culture as the old omertá about doping.” In a seismic interview, a pro cyclist speaks out under condition of anonymity on the sport's fossil fuel sponsor problem. 🧵 cyclingweekly.com/news/youre-nev…

Spain may have lifted the trophy, but the real World Cup winners are the polluting companies whose adverts filled every stadium during the tournament.  cooldownclimate.org/latest/world-c…

If football wants to protect the game, it needs to protect the communities that sustain it. That means investing in grassroots resilience-not allowing polluting companies to sportswash their reputation. Read the full piece. 👇 6/6 cooldownclimate.org/latest/when-th…

Meanwhile, football's global governing body continues to accept sponsorship from the industries fuelling climate breakdown. 🤯 5/6 theguardian.com/environment/20…

When Hurricane Melissa hit Haiti, football pitches became emergency hubs. Not because of the grass. But because of the trust built there over years. A powerful piece from Kathy McAllister of @goalshaiti on why sport is about far more than sport. 👇 1/6 cooldownclimate.org/latest/when-th…