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The groundbreaking podcast returns for a second series in 2022 with Melissa Wilson joining Jonathan Overend to discover positive stories in the sport and sustainability space. This challenging series investigates the links between sport and climate change and asks the sporting community, including us as fans, to assess our contribution to an unfolding crisis. Athletes, clubs and governing bodies tell stories from three angles; the impact of climate change on everyday sport, the contribution ...
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This pod is 27 minutes. The same duration as a flight taken by a Premier League club in 2023. The thought-provoking study released this week by BBC Sport suggests the average flight time of Premier Clubs around matches in a period between mid-January and mid-March was just 42 minutes. Short-haul domestic flying is rife in football. Everyone's at it…
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Ahead of Green Football Weekend (2nd-6th February), Jonathan and Melissa get busy with some easy, everyday environmental wins, "scoring goals" for their chosen clubs! At www.greenfootballweekend.com you can send your team soaring up the sustainability league table by achieving positive results in and around your own home. Jonathan's been whipping u…
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In time-honoured tradition, the series wraps with a (virtual) Christmas party. This can only mean one thing; an editing nightmare for the producer. Putting that to one side, as we so often do in the broadcast game, we welcome back several available (sorry, favourite) guests featured on the second series of the pod. Expect to hear from Katie Cross (…
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Australia may be a nation playing catch up in the sport/sustainability space but recent events suggest its moving rapidly in the right direction, led by athletes! Amy Steel and Emma Pocock join Jonathan and Melissa on Episode 14 to discuss playing for pride and purpose; including Donnell Wallam and the whole Australia Diamonds Netball Team, Amy's f…
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Track and Field is our focus on Episode 13 as we hear from two current World Champions and Bob Ramsak, Head of Sustainability at World Athletics, joins the pod. This is a sport experiencing significant impact due to changes to our climate; the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics not only changed start time but completely moved its location, while US tri…
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If the business case for taking a sustainable approach to sport isn't clear enough already, it will be after listening to Jamie Farndale. The Scotland Rugby 7s international, our guest on Episode 12, takes a "people, planet, profit" approach and everything he says makes sense. If making a profit is ultimately about making people feel good, then tho…
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How is the self-styled "best league in the world" leading on climate action? In reality, it's a mixed picture with a shortage of league-wide gravitas on the vital issue impacting the very future of the game. The English Premier League, with all its component parts including 20 clubs and over 500 players, is yet to realise the full potential of its …
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"Football can change the world!" So proclaimed the President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, in May 2022 at the World Economic Forum. Purposeful social impact, to use soccer as a power for good; could it be true?! Was this the seismic shift from the all-powerful governing body many had been waiting for?? Alas, just a fortnight before the start of the Wo…
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While Melissa continues her exploration of Europe's finest budget rail-routes (while working hard, it should be noted), Jonathan's at the BASIS Sustainable Sport Awards in London! Join him at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge Stadium to meet some of the great success stories in UK sport and sustainability thanks to the organisation right at the heart of th…
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Before Melissa heads off on a trip of a lifetime, we turn the spotlight on the sports media with Episode Eight. Yes, that's us! We go behind the scenes at Sky Sports, IMG Studios and Bafta Albert to find out how the Sports Media landscape is changing, both in terms of editorial priorities and also production impacts. Jonathan brings his perspective…
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A commercial deal in sport always used to be a pretty simple negotiaton: "You write the cheque, we'll endorse your brand". But that's all changing, with purpose and impact heavy factors. Climate awareness is shooting to the top of the priority list when partnerships are struck. On episode seven, Jonathan and Melissa take an interesting case study; …
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You find us under the arch of Wembley Stadium for Episode 6; we're at the Sport Positive Summit, 2022! Jonathan and Melissa are joined by the organiser Claire Poole, fresh from gathering 420 people in the same space all with the common goal; to fight climate change through the power of sport. It's been an incredible journey for Claire and her small…
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Sporting major events come and go; they pop up in one place, disappear and then return somewhere completely different, usually four years later. So how does this distinctly unsustainable operation have a lasting legacy? How do we make sure “learnings are not lost”. We visit the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to speak to their sustainability tea…
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After appealing in Episode One for global sport leaders to step forward and speak more openly about environmental awareness, we have our first Chief Executive on the series; the man at the top of the governing body of men's tennis, Massimo Calvelli. As Chief Executive Officer of the ATP, Massimo has a lot of influence on a global scale - among play…
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Jonathan's in Bristol to speak to Katie Cross from Pledgeball and Pete Smith from Bristol City FC. They're exploring the idea, mooted in Episode Two with Sail GP, that we can redefine the parameters of sporting success. Of course winning means more goals, more points and faster times. But does it always have to be? As we search for positive solutio…
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Sail GP are making waves with their global sailing series, not least with their innovative "Impact League". Fiona Morgan, Tom Verity and Isabella Bertold join the pod to explain how sport can lead on incentivising athletes and setting a purpose from the beginning. On this second series, we're visiting a lot of clubs, venues and organisations who go…
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Series two of Emergency on Planet Sport has arrived with new episodes dropping every Wednesday and a new co-host! After injury wrecked her Tokyo Olympic dream, international rower Melissa Wilson has new priorities; firstly, developing her organisation "Athletes of the World" and, secondly, plonking herself on the EOPS sofa next to Jonathan Overend!…
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Emergency on Planet Sport, the groundbreaking podcast documentary series released in January 2021, is returning for a second series. We can now announce that host Jonathan Overend, the international broadcaster responsible for making series one, will be joined by one of the most respected voices in the sport and sustainability space; Melissa Wilson…
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