Excellent work team and a pleasure to be involved! :D

Cover of "CAST BRIEFING 42 - October 2025" featuring a photo of enthusiastic rugby fans cheering in a stadium. The title reads "Accelerating sustainability in professional sport: Insights from rugby union." Four key messages are listed in bullet points. Logos of CAST, Pledgeball, and Cardiff University appear at the bottom.

How can we accelerate sustainability in professional sport? 🏉

New CAST Briefing: "Accelerating sustainability in professional sport: Insights from rugby union ", led by Dr Mark Wilson.

Key messages thread 🧵

Read the briefing: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

No dog bites for no reason — when US trade tactics, African fragility and critical minerals collide The US isn’t interested in South Africa’s sovereignty. It’s interested in our compliance. When Pretoria takes a stance on Palestine or aligns with BRICS+ interests, trade is threatened like a bone bei...

Such an important op-ed in the @dailymaverick.co.za ! Amazingly well argued. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗧𝗩 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

The French fossil fuel giant has a huge presence at this year's race.

But behind the logos that adorn jerseys and banners is a community fighting to survive on the climate frontlines.

Full report: www.itv.com/watch/tour-d...

I wonder how the other timelines are doing.

I cannot get my head around why this isn't the biggest story on every news site... oh yes, cause there are 10,000 other awful things happening with profound and global ramifications. :(

1. Every two years, the average UK car 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 1𝗰𝗺. 🚘💨

Here's what you need to know about 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, and what you can do to tackle it. 🧵

💡 More info: cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

✍️ Take action: win.newmode.net/cleancities/...

We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.

YouTube video by Leaders' Quest Three Horizons: an introduction

When I worked in #Namibia & #SouthAfrica at pivotal crossroads in their histories, we asked 2 equally important Qs: "What kind of a society do we want from now on?" and "How do we get there from here?"
Collab of 3 kinds of people is essential: #BAU folks, #innovators & #visionaries.
bit.ly/4299RKe

The folks at @fairsq.bsky.social have done truly fantastic work with the Substitute report, and this episode serves as just a taster!

Thanks so much to @ncgeehan.bsky.social for your time and to @alexcarlen.bsky.social for setting it up!

FIFA's Infantino promoting his Saudi funded Club WC at Saudi LIV golf event at Trump's course 😬

Sport has been co-opted by a bubble of anti-democratic oil interests who are totally unmoored from what 'drill baby drill' means for fans.

This is not normal, we must fight back, join us today! ⚽💪⚡

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Wrexham guilty of hypocrisy as 37-minute flight undermines Ryan Reynolds' pledge Wrexham took a short-haul flight on a private jet to a game against Wycombe four days before Ryan Reynolds visited the United Nations to trumpet the club signing up to an environmental pledge

🤯 “Altogether the plane flew 1,155 miles in just over five hours of flight time, including the four positioning flights – all to avoid Wrexham having to drive just over three hours in each direction on a coach.”

Where to listen — Sustaining Sport Here you can find where to listen to the Sustaining Sport podcast. It is available on all platforms including Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Google podcasts, and TuneIn.

Whether you are a player, fan, or simply curious about the intersection of sports and sustainability, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

👇 www.sustainingsport.com/where-to-lis...

New episode came out this week! I spoke to Chris Britt-Searle of the @thenexttest.org!

This episode goes beyond the boundaries (all puns intended) of the game, challenging assumptions and offering a look at cricket’s potential to lead in the fight against climate change.

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Extremely bad news. And wow, just a heartbreaking demonstration that the companies that build fossil fuel infrastructure are aggressive antagonists, despite making themselves out to be humble demand-meeters

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sportswashing in action…

The Chair of Saudi Aramco, governor of the PIF and close MBS ally enjoying Newcastle’s celebrations ⬇️

Today, over 400 Olympians joined the call for a high-carbon advertising ban. 👏

In a show of unprecedented climate leadership, athletes called on the incoming IOC President to "set a standard" that would eliminate polluting sponsors from the Olympics. 👇

a picture of a necklace with a figure on it who is pushing some kind of pearl or bauble up the necklace chain, labeled “the Sisyphus necklace”… “a reminder that you can overcome anything”

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

One of our volunteers is an excellent singer-songwriter, you can contact us via DM.

One demand: remove the Aramco ads!

🚨 The Climate Change Committee publishes its seventh carbon budget.

Huge reductions in car, power and heating emissions are advised with one notable exception - aviation.

🧠✈️ The CCC appears to have fallen victim to the troubling condition of planes on the brain. 🧵

"This is a reset bp, with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value." Murray Auchincloss, chief executive officer, bp

Capitalism can't solve climate change because publicly traded companies must satisfy their shareholders — typically institutional investors — resulting in a focus on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of long-term planning for both the company and the environment.

www.bp.com/en/global/co...

🚨 Over 150 of Australia's top athletes have put their names to a letter supporting the Duty of Care Bill.

This bill represents the best opportunity to protect future generations of sports fans and athletes.

✍️ Join other sport-loving Australians by signing the letter: www.dutyofcare.org.au

Beautifully done by Private Eye...

Is hand numbness and shoulder pain normal after multiple days using Nvivo? #QualitativeResearch #QualityOfLife?

Gianni Infantino given wake-up call as stats show FIFA driving climate crisis A major new scientific report shows how damaging football's sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies and airlines are - and tells FIFA what needs to be done

“The report makes two main practical demands to the football industry, beyond the obvious of reducing emissions, raising awareness and collecting more data: to ban polluting sponsors and to redesign the football calendar to make it more regional.”

Football's climate own goal Global football’s carbon footprint threatens the sport, its players, fans and future.

“Given the way in which these lucrative sponsorship deals have come to dominate and entrench the top clubs and tournaments in the world, there would be a major benefit in terms of the competitiveness of the sport.”

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲

Football finds itself offside in the climate crisis. ⚽️ 🟥

In the first-ever industry-wide global assessment, climate scientist Dr. Stuart Parkinson uncovers the sport’s massive pollution problem.

Full report: www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...

The City of Cape Town, which nearly ran out of water a few years ago amid a multi-year drought, plans to build a 50 to 70 million litre per day desalination plant in the Paarden Eiland area to prepare for a drier future.