Athlete Innes FitzGerald turned down flying to compete in Australia due to the climate emergency.
For Innes, she appreciates sport is a global event but for now she's limiting herself to only competing in the UK and Europe.
"It's really difficult because there's only so many competitions you can do with the same people in your home country," she says."But I think the situation of the climate, it's an emergency - you have to act as if it's an emergency."A return economy flight from London to Sydney generates around 2,484 kg of CO2 per passenger, this is just from the burning of the fuel.
There is no doubt that Innes' decision to not fly to Australia has already provoked debate and raised awareness of the relationship between sport and climate change. The bigger picture and, quite literally, the bigger issue, is the huge environmental and geographical footprint of sport. There is more sport now than ever before and increasingly it is globalised, driving emissions ever higher.
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