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Prince Albert II of Monaco, chair of the IOC Sustainability and Legacy Commission, speaking at the launch of the Sports Climate Action Framework at the COP24 climate action conference in Katowice, Poland. 11 December 2018.
UNFCCC Secretariat

COP24: World sports join team UN in race against climate change

12 December 2018
Climate and Environment

Major organizations from the world of sport are joining an increasing number of private sector businesses in the race to beat global warming. At the United Nations’ COP24 conference in Poland on Wednesday, 17 major players representing sporting bodies, athletes and fans, added their names to the collective scoreboard, with the launch of the Sports Climate Action Framework.

Canadian record football player Karina LeBlanc at the launch of the UN Sports for Climate Action Initiative at the COP24 climate change conference in Katowice, Poland.
UNFCCC/James Dowson

‘Time for all of us to wake up’ and save the planet: goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc at COP24

11 December 2018
Interviews

The UNICEF Ambassador and former Olympian, who played in five World Cups, is committed to doing her bit to save the planet, as she told UN News’s Yasmina Guerda at the COP24 climate change conference in Poland, on Tuesday, where the UN launched the Sports for Climate Action Framework, to involve more athletes in the fight. 

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges the importance of sports for social progress as well as an important enabler of sustainable development.
UNIC Tokyo/Takashi Okano

Weeding corruption out of sport an investment in development: UN crime-fighting agency

5 June 2018
Law and Crime Prevention

Sports scandals, including allegations of endemic corruption and the involvement of organized crime, threaten to undermine the sector’s potential to contribute to peace and global development, a senior United Nations official said on Tuesday

Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), sits down for an interview with UN News.
UN News/Liz Scaffidi

‘Team spirit’ is the perfect springboard to peace: UNODC chief

13 April 2018
Interviews

Fair play and team spirit are just two of the elements that make sport an ideal vehicle for achieving both a more peaceful world and the Sustainable Development Goals, according to Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of UNODC.

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A girl passes a ball during a drill at basketball training session in Mogadishu, Somalia in 2013. Banned under the extremist group Al Shabaab, basketball is once again making a resurgence in Mogadishu.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

With fair play, tolerance and team spirit, sport can score for peace and development, say UN officials

9 April 2018
SDGs

The United Nations can make its voice heard on the power of sport in promoting both peace and development, a senior UN official said Monday, urging participants at a special Headquarters event to “bring out our inner sports fans,” and harness sport as a force for positive change.