On Tuesday twenty third July at Le Golf Nationwide, the host venue of the Paris 2024 Olympic golf competitions, the Worldwide Golf Federation (IGF), the French Golf Federation and the Swiss Golf Federation grew to become signatories of the Sports activities for Nature Framework. Sports activities for Nature is a joint initiative of the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), United Nations Setting Programme (UNEP), the Secretariat of the Conference on Organic Variety (CBD) and Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy.
Sports activities for Nature goals to ship transformative motion for nature throughout sports activities, by 2030 and past, enabling sports activities to champion nature and contribute to its safety and restoration. It offers a recreation plan for sports activities — in any respect ranges — to speed up and encourage others to take motion for nature. The IGF, the French Golf Federation and the Swiss Golf Federation be a part of different Sports activities for Nature companions in an effort to drive optimistic change and lead by instance within the sports activities neighborhood.
“Sports activities for Nature is honored to welcome these three signatories, increasing the dedication of each the Olympic motion and the golf communities,” mentioned Meredith McCurdy, Programme Chief, Sports activities for Nature, IUCN. “It’s particularly distinctive that we are able to formally welcome these organisations at Le Golf Nationwide, a course that has made important efforts in direction of defending and restoring onsite biodiversity.”
The Sports activities for Nature Framework offers 4 rules to information the actions of sports activities organizations to make a contribution in direction of nature: (1) Defend nature and keep away from injury to pure habitats and species; (2) Restore and regenerate nature wherever doable; (3) Perceive and cut back dangers to nature in your provide chains; (4) Educate and encourage optimistic motion for nature throughout and past sport.
“By signing the Sports activities for Nature Framework, the IGF reinforces its dedication to sustainability and recognises the management position we play in guiding the game of golf to make a optimistic affect on the atmosphere,” mentioned IGF Government Director Antony Scanlon. “It’s vital that these within the golf trade do the whole lot we are able to to guard and restore nature, particularly at golf programs across the globe. I’m appreciative of the French Golf Federation and the Swiss Golf Federation for his or her activism on this space and I do know they are going to be nice companions as we proceed to discover and implement sustainability measures to make sure the way forward for golf for generations to return.”
Le Golf Nationwide, which can host the lads’s and girls’s Olympic golf competitions and can also be dwelling to the annual FedEx Open de France on the DP World Tour, is a mannequin for the dedication to sustainability. Beneath the management of the French Golf Federation, the venue has decreased water utilization throughout the 2 programs by 40 pct. from 2018 to 2023. Within the run-up to and in the course of the Olympic golf competitions, mowers have been geared up with sensors to observe soil moisture in order that interventions and watering will be measured out with even higher precision. Within the newest examine of Le Golf Nationwide’s biodiversity, performed by the Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past, it was decided that the property is dwelling to 409 totally different species of wildlife, together with 13 heritage species and 33 species in decline.
“We’re extremely proud to hitch the Sports activities for Nature Framework as nature is a part of the DNA of golf,” mentioned Christophe Muniesa, Common Supervisor of the French Golf Federation. “We all know that the gorgeous nature in our golf programs is diversified, wealthy but in addition below menace. We have now lengthy been dedicated to preserving it and wish to be sure that golf programs are an integral a part of the answer to protect the atmosphere, alongside our companion the Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past. The Sports activities for Nature Framework will enable us to advertise and share our greatest practices, increase consciousness amongst golfers but in addition encourage them to progress.”
“Swiss Golf has been championing the values of sustainability and environmental stewardship for fairly a while,” mentioned Etienne Marclay, Board Member and Chairman of the Sustainability Committee for the Swiss Golf Federation. “By signing the Sports activities for Nature Framework, which aligns completely with our imaginative and prescient and technique, we reaffirm our dedication to preserving and enhancing the biodiversity and the dear ecosystems on golf programs for future generations.”
The next people formally signed the Sports activities for Nature framework on behalf of their organisations: Antony Scanlon, Government Director, Worldwide Golf Federation; Christophe Muniesa, Common Supervisor, French Golf Federation; Etienne Marclay, Board Member and Chairman of the Sustainability Committee, Swiss Golf Federation.
Scanlon, Muniesa, and Marclay have been joined within the images by Meredith McCurdy, Programme Chief, Sports activities For Nature and Tania Braga, Head of Legacy, Worldwide Olympic Committee.
For extra info, go to the Sports activities for Nature web site.
