The International Ski Federation (FIS), regularly criticized on the subject, is committed to ensuring that its operation and the organization of its events respect a neutral environmental impact by 2030. “The FIS (and therefore its member federations ) will develop a strategy to achieve a neutral environmental impact by 2030 for its operation and the organization of its events, "said the body Wednesday in a statement.
The FIS Council announces that it has adopted the "Mainau 2.0 manifesto", resulting from a first manifesto from 1994 written on this island in the south of Germany (Lake Constance). The text describes the broad outlines of an awareness of the carbon impact of snow sports, the practice and economy of which is endangered in return by global warming.
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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) December 3, 2018International winter sports circuits, especially alpine skiing, are regularly criticized for their innumerable trips across countries and continents, to the detriment of athletes and the environment, all without synchronizing men's calendars each time. and women.
"The calendar is one of the things we are working on in our action for the environment, but synchronizing the dates of men and women would not change anything, we should always move the same number of people", had estimated in October 2019 for the 'AFP Briton Sarah Lewis, number 2 in the proceedings.
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