Green Sport Awards 2024 nominees announced

In its Green Sport Awards, BBC Sport celebrates nan bully news - nan athletes, erstwhile athletes and organisations moving difficult to enact and animate change.

Below are nan shortlists for nan 3rd yearly awards. The winners - including nan Evergreen Award, which recognises life accomplishment - will beryllium announced connected nan BBC Sport website and app connected Monday, 7 October.

Jamie Farndale

The Bristol and Scotland Sevens rugby national subordinate was nominated for going "above and beyond" successful his engagement successful sustainability. Farndale, 30, is nan sustainability ambassador for nan Scotland squad and often uses his societal media platforms for nan cause. He continued to turn his power done nan Paris 2024 Olympics - domiciled modelling and starring connected sustainability connected and disconnected nan field. Among different things, he was an International Olympic Committee Athlete Advocacy Award victor successful its sustainability awards, said retired astatine London Climate Action Week connected nan sheet connected larboard and ambiance alteration and led a convention astatine nan Hong Kong Sport and Sustainability Summit.

Imogen Grant

Grant is simply a salient sustainability advocate, and uses her power to raise consciousness and speak astir her beliefs. The Olympic rower converted from being a vegetarian to a vegan successful 2023, saying it was a measurement of making a individual difference. She past became an ambassador for nan Rivers Trust and talks astir her experiences pinch mediocre h2o health. Grant, 28, was a spokesperson for British Rowing erstwhile it announced its biology sustainability strategy, and was nominated for an International Olympic Committee Climate Action Award. She besides talks publically astir her determination to beryllium conscious astir sustainable manner by not buying caller clothes.

Cameron Norrie

The British tennis subordinate has been uncovering ways to trim his effect connected nan satellite for galore years. In an question and reply successful 2023, Norrie talked astir really astir really increasing up successful New Zealand meant he had been environmentally conscious since childhood. Norrie, 29, was successful nan apical 3 players to usage an app connected nan men's elite tennis circuit that tracked nan c footprint created by nan recreation of immoderate subordinate that signed up. In 2024, he besides became an investor successful a 'hydration system' successful which dissolvable cubes containing earthy flavouring - and electrolytes successful nan lawsuit of sportspeople - are used, to switch nan request for integrative bottles.

Amy James-Turner

Turner is simply a Planet League Ambassador and useful pinch a world web of influencers, activists, and athletes to raise consciousness and animate action connected ambiance change. She uses her level arsenic a footballer for Tottenham to link pinch fans and stock her passion for protecting nan early of nan planet. In May, nan 33-year-old launched Women's Football and Climate Change: The Players' Perspective, which gathered nan views of 113 female footballers and serves arsenic a foundational archive for initiating broader discussions. Her different contributions see penning aggregate articles connected nan taxable of sustainability successful sport, speaking connected a sheet astatine nan UK's largest net-zero congress, and taking portion successful Green Football week pinch Spurs.

David Wheeler

Wheeler was nominated for making a "monumental impact" successful inspiring shot to go much sustainable. The 33-year-old Wycombe subordinate criticised nan game's world governing assemblage Fifa astatine nan yearly Basis convention successful comments noted by Forbes. He besides said astatine Back of nan Net Zero: Sport arsenic a Catalyst for Environmental Change event, and nan UCL Institute of Finance and Technology Green Pitch: New Frontiers for Sustainable Football Conference. As nan Professional Football Association's spokesperson connected sustainability, he has been moving pinch Football For Future to present workshops to members hoping to summation consciousness and engagement by much players.

Rhydian Cowley

Cowley is described arsenic a "powerful advocator for a sustainable future". In nan build-up to nan Olympics, nan Australian title walker balanced his aggravated training pinch progressive ambiance advocacy. As a spokesperson for nan Rings of Fire report, he shares individual experiences pinch power and title to item ambiance change's effect connected athletes. In June 2024, he was 1 of 14 athletes to motion an unfastened missive urging nan International Olympic Committee to driblet Toyota arsenic a awesome sponsor. Cowley, 33, consistently promotes biology sustainability and participates successful high-profile initiatives to mobilise athletes globally. He has besides collaborated pinch schools and organization groups to beforehand biology education.

Jessie Fleming

Footballer Fleming has been making progressive and impactful pledges and changes to show her support for helping nan environment. When she joined Chelsea astatine nan commencement of nan year, nan Canadian pledged to compensate nan societal c costs for her transportation and immoderate different aerial recreation passim her season. Prior to that she was 1 of 44 players to return work for nan biology effect of their flights to and from nan Women's World Cup. The 26-year-old has besides started straight supporting a organization regenerative agriculture and farming initiative.

Pragnya Mohan

Indian triathlete Mohan was 1 of 11 Olympians who were progressive successful nan Rings of Fire study and successful April said astatine nan Basis conference, wherever she discussed her concerns astir nan rising power and really it has impacted her. The highest-ranked Indian triathlete successful history, Mohan, 29, is not capable to train successful her homeland because of nan conditions and utmost heat. She describes nan effects connected nan assemblage and brings to ray nan severity of nan threat of ambiance change. Mohan's experiences and penetration item nan societal effect of nan biology situation successful parts of nan world that are emotion it nan most.

Chris Paul

In nan past 12 months, hoops subordinate Paul has further amplified his efforts by participating successful campaigns that item nan value of biology responsibility. The 39-year-old San Antonio Spurs subordinate has collaborated pinch organisations to raise consciousness astir ambiance alteration and has utilized his level to promote others to adopt much sustainable lifestyles. In June, Paul became a committee personnel astatine Green Sport Alliance and was a keynote speaker astatine their summit, wherever he discussed nan intersection of athletics and biology responsibility.

Sofie Junge Pedersen

Pedersen has continued her biology defense done various impactful initiatives. During nan 2023 Women's World Cup, she led a run that focused connected offsetting c emissions from flights and donating to ambiance initiatives successful Australia, New Zealand and Uganda. Her dedication to sustainability has been evident successful her ongoing efforts, arsenic she continues to collaborate pinch organisations specified arsenic Common Goal to amplify nan connection of sustainability successful football.

Chris Boardman

Former Olympic champion Boardman has been a powerful advocator for sustainable transport, chiefly cycling. A argumentation advisor for British Cycling since 2012, he has since go Greater Manchester's cycling and stepping commissioner, past nan area's first recreation commissioner. He has helped create an 1,800-mile rhythm and stepping web plan, pinch nan volition of getting cars and vehicles disconnected nan streets and making progressive recreation accessible. At a nationalist level, Boardman is chair of nan committee astatine Sport England and successful 2022 became nan first nationalist progressive recreation commissioner successful government. Since he took nan role, Active Travel England has announced £200m of backing for cycling and stepping schemes, helping to beforehand patient travel, trim emissions and turn nan economy. In July, nan 56-year-old cycled 550 miles from Manchester to Paris for nan Olympic Games to raise consciousness of Sport England's Going for Green Pledge.

Adrian 'Ace' Buchan

Buchan is simply a master surfer and passionate ambiance advocate, playing a important domiciled successful biology activism. He was a founding committee personnel of an Australian kindness dedicated to combating ambiance alteration and an ambassador for a non-profit organisation moving connected climate-crisis mitigation, coastal and marine conservation, and addressing integrative pollution, and advocates for a kindness aimed astatine reducing integrative pollution. When he won $25,000 for water defense successful 2020, he donated nan prize money to nan Climate Council. The 42-year-old sits connected nan committee astatine governing assemblage Surfing Australia and successful nan past twelvemonth has made important strides done his activity astatine Surfers for Climate.

Lewis Pugh

Pugh, 54, has redefined nan boundaries of endurance swimming and helped alteration nan destiny of much than 2 cardinal quadrate kilometres of ocean. In establishing Lewis Pugh Foundation, he group retired to guarantee astatine slightest 30% of our oceans are protected by 2030. As UN Patron of nan Oceans, he is simply a sound for nan water and has taken his connection to nan UK Parliament, Kremlin, UN Climate Summits, Westminster Abbey, universities and firm conferences. Pugh has besides fixed 2 different Ted Talks and utilized lengthy swims to item issues, including go nan first personification to aquatics nan magnitude of nan Thames - doing truthful successful 2006 to tie attraction to nan terrible drought successful England and dangers of world warming. Pugh was named a Young Global Leader by nan World Economic Forum successful 2010 and nan UN appointed him arsenic its first Patron of nan Oceans successful 2013.

Alexandra Rickman

Rickman has worked consistently successful athletics sustainability since retiring from a hugely successful profession arsenic a Paralympic sailor. As a consultant, she advised connected sustainability strategies for nan London 2017 World Para-Athletics and IAAF World Championships and was nan in-house support to SailGP, which won nan Green Sport Award for Elite Organisation of nan Year grant successful 2022. In January 2024, she became head of sustainability astatine World Sailing, for whom she had been caput of sustainability since 2022

Melissa Wilson

A erstwhile rower, aft missing retired connected Great Britain's Tokyo 2020 Olympics team, Wilson focused connected her different driving passion - utilizing nan powerfulness of athletes to thrust ambiance action. She had taken connected a activity domiciled pinch Champions for Earth and past co-founded Athletes of nan World pinch erstwhile Olympic champion Hannah Mills. The group of like-minded Olympians from astir nan world person prompted a assortment of meaningful campaigns, including Hockey for Climate. An EcoAthletes champion, nan 31-year-old precocious began moving pinch nan Global Strategic Communications Council - a web of communications professionals who activity to nutrient unbranded communications astir world environment, climate, power and quality issues.

Extreme E

The motorsport series, which had its first play successful 2021, highlights nan rumor of ambiance alteration and its effect connected various regions astir nan world. Among nan things it did successful nan information model were: forming partnerships including 1 pinch an electrical mobility institution connected carrier electrification charging systems and robotics successful Extreme E races; launching nan Extreme H conveyance and Extreme H aviator title successful Scotland; bequest programmes successful nan regions and places that it races, and contributing to biology events, acquisition and engagement.

Paris 2024

The organisers of Paris 2024 wanted to put connected a show - but besides create a caller exemplary for nan Olympics and Paralympics that was much sustainable than ever before. Their pre-Games strategy looked astatine ways to guarantee c neutrality, protect and regenerate biodiversity, group up a information system and bolster resilience. Among nan measures were: 95% of venues already existing aliases being impermanent infrastructures; 100% of nan venues served by nationalist transport; allowing reusable bottles wrong venues and providing free h2o fountains; ensuring medals were 100% recycled.

Professional Footballers, Australia

The PFA facilitated nan inaugural 'Green Games' arsenic a measurement of bringing ambiance and sustainability into nan A-Leagues and into nan speech connected shot pitches. The inaugural coincided pinch nan merchandise of its Stoppage Time report, which examined football’s effect connected ambiance successful Australia and New Zealand. The 2 matches that made up nan Green Games focused connected reducing c pollution, offsetting unavoidable emissions, introducing caller sustainable practices astatine clubs, and raising consciousness astir nan narration betwixt ambiance alteration and football.

World Athletics

Earlier this year, World Athletics launched Athletics for a Better World (ABW) Standards - mounting a number of environmental, societal and governance obligations that big cities aliases venues request to adhere to if they want to tally a sanctioned event. The ABW Standard consists of 55 action areas including procurement, discarded management, energy, nutrient and h2o management, recreation and accommodation planning. Diversity, accessibility and inclusion of unit and volunteers is besides addressed, arsenic is ensuring nan health, information and wellbeing of each participants and stakeholders.

World Rugby

In June 2024, World Rugby president Sir Bill Beaumont wrote an unfastened missive urging nan rugby national organization to "come together to protect nan principle of our beloved sport”. The missive introduced nan Rugby and Climate Change study arsenic good arsenic a sustainability strategy, bringing consciousness to really ambiance alteration is affecting nan world and recommendations for clubs. The sustainability scheme provides a much applicable strategy, pinch areas addressed including: revising aerial recreation and crushed proscription policies; support for utilized kit and instrumentality postulation and redistribution; and collaborating pinch broadcasters to optimise usage of distant production.

Clean Water Alliance

In April 2024, 7 water-based sports came together to create an confederation calling for cleanable unfastened h2o crossed nan UK. The confederation will activity together to power decision-makers and thrust affirmative change, moving collaboratively to item issues and create solutions to thief return nan UK's bluish spaces to beryllium wherever quality tin thrive and athletics and recreation tin beryllium enjoyed. It will telephone for amended backing for regulators, meticulous and accessible real-time accusation and nickname of nan wide scope of activities that dangle connected cleanable water.

Cricket for Climate

Founded by Green Sport Awards Athlete of nan Year 2023 Pat Cummins, Cricjet for Climate is still very young, but has already - among different things: Installed astatine zero costs to clubs much than 400 kW of star powerfulness crossed cricket facilities; removed much than 8,000 tonnes of c emissions and saved much than $1m successful power bills complete nan life of nan star installations; designed and tally a aviator for players and cricket leaders arsenic trusted messengers connected climate; and knowledgeable nan 108 cricket personnel nations connected nan impacts of ambiance connected cricket and activated them towards applicable action connected ambiance alteration astatine nan yearly ICC Global conference.

The Green Runners

A world organization involving hundreds of runners, The Green Runners is simply a volunteer-led organization group, seeking to raise awareness, alteration behaviour and revolutionise moving to thief create a amended planet. The group, mostly based successful nan United Kingdom, started a run successful December 2023 called '1,000 actions to observe 1,000 members, encouraging group to springiness backmost and besides providing proposal and examples of different actions that thief towards a 'fitter planet.

Pledgeball

Pledgeball is simply a research-driven kindness that intends to thief destruct discarded and promote fans to deliberation astir their c footprint. It has been consistently progressive successful nan shot organization but is progressively partnering pinch different sports and organisations to support, beforehand and promote nan update of sustainable practice. In nan past 12 months, Pledgeball has introduced a sustainable recreation charter to thief clubs take a much sustainable measurement to travel, its laminitis Katie Cross delivered a shop connected instrumentality engagement pinch biology sustainability and it has worked pinch Uefa and nan Biathlon International Union astir large events. Through Pledgeball successful 2024, fans pledged to prevention 62,589,800 kg of CO2e per year, which equates to taking much than 13,600 cars disconnected nan road.

Surfers for Climate

An Australian-based charity, Surfers for Climate campaigns to forestall offshore lipid and state drilling, grow Australia's web of surfing reserves, and extremity nan sport's reliance connected fossil fuels. In March 2024, nan New South Wales parliament passed an amendment to authorities banning each offshore lipid and state successful its waters, and Surfers for Climate is campaigning for Australia's six different states and territories to travel suit. It has besides collaborated pinch PhD campaigner Tom Wilson connected an inaugural which intends to lead nan surf organization to clasp sustainable solutions and trim nan biology effect of surfing.