Green Pitch: New Frontiers for Sustainable Football Conference

Football associations, leagues, clubs, players, and football fans are increasingly pledging to help strengthen global sustainability by reducing their environmental impacts. At present, we are at an important intersection.

Football can either lead by example by influencing and contributing to this global environmental pledge, or it can become exposed to possible “green sport-washing,” and thus in future potentially be blamed as a contributor to the climate crisis itself. Against this background, the conference will discuss from a variety of perspectives how football, with its global reach, size and social and cultural influence, can become a fundamental advocate and participant in climate sustainability.

Speakers:

• Maheta Molango, CEO Professional Footballers' Association
• Héctor Bellerín, Professional Footballer for Real Betis and Forest Green Rovers Shareholder
• David Wheeler, Professional Footballer for Wycombe Wanderers and Sustainability Champion
• Francesca Medda, Director of UCL Institute of Finance and Technology
• Michele Uva, UEFA Director of Social and Environmental Sustainability
• Charles Frémont, UEFA Innovation Hub Manager
• Andrea Traverso, UEFA Director Financial Sustainability and Research
• Katie Cross, CEO, Pledgeball
• Alessandro Belluzzo, Founding Partner, Belluzzo International Partners

The specific location of the event will be shared with attendees closer to the date. The conference will be within the UCL main campus, Gower Street, London.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact: akash.sharma@ucl.ac.uk.