UAE-based cricket team the Desert Vipers has today agreed on a partnership with The Plastic Pledge, founded by adventurer and environmental campaigner Toby Gregory, to highlight the threat of plastic pollution across the planet.
At the Desert Vipers, we’ve decided that one of our New Year’s Resolutions in 2024 is to learn more about environmental issues and ways to address them – and this means for our entire staff and players.
At Desert Vipers we have developed a keen awareness of our own air travel’s impact through our work on calculating our carbon footprint, so we thought we'd share some of our newfound insight in today’s blog. Here’s hoping that your meal of choice and associated chat are not so dry that this comes up as a topic of discussion for you before January, but ahead of the big day, here is some of what we learnt.
In the blog last week we talked about the importance of carbon emissions measurement. In follow up this week in our first first guest blog, we hand over to the experts from Carbon Happy World to provide their own view on the exercise that we went through together. Ben Hardy-Jones provides the Dubai Sustainability Spotlight, detailing his experience with Ethara at the Formula 1 Etihad Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Sport has a unique power in creating change because of the passion that humans have for their favourite teams and athletes. This is particularly true for cricket, which is impacted by climate change more than any other outdoor sport. Recently, climate has been a topic of discussion in the cricket press as players at the men’s World Cup have detailed the challenges they faced in performance owing to environmental factors. We want to be part of the solution, not an addition to the problem.