Thinking about Our Athletes Future
USNBA is an United Nations Sports for Climate Action Club
There is overwhelming evidence that human activities have an impact on the global climate, resulting in global warming. We must acknowledge that traveling to play basketball contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore USNBA is committed to having a net-zero impact. We join clubs across the globe in the UN Sports for Climate Action Initiative.
UN Climate Change has invited sports organizations to join the new climate action for sport movement. This initiative seeks to empower sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.
From UNFCCC: “Sports organizations can display climate leadership by engaging together in the climate neutrality journey. They can achieve this by taking responsibility for their climate footprint, which in turn will incentivize climate action beyond the sports sector, and therefore help global ambition step-up in the face of the threat posed by climate change.
Uniting behind a set of principles, sports organizations and their communities have created an initiative by collaborating in order to position their sector on the path of the low carbon economy that global leaders agreed on in Paris: Sports for Climate Action.”
Here is what we are doing:
Carpooling
Reducing travel with smart event planning
We promote responsible consumption
Carbon offset
1% for the Planet member
Education & Awareness
Learn More About Sports for Climate Action, and join the initiative!