FIS Joins Sports For Nature Framework, Eliasch At Climate & Nature Finance Mobilisation Forum
FIS is proud to announce that it became the 40th official signatory sports organization to join the Sports for Nature Framework.
The Sports for Nature Framework was launched late last year at the UN Biodiversity conference in Montreal and now counts 40 sports organizations among its signatories. The 40 organizations are of all sizes from around the world and have committed to take measurable action for nature. The Framework has four principles that signatories agree to: protect nature, restore nature, green their supply chains and raise awareness.
Developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), International Olympic Committee (IOC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and supported by Sails of Change, the Sports for Nature Framework, is helping sports deliver significant action for nature by 2030 and beyond.
FIS President Johan Eliasch said: “FIS is delighted to join Sports for Nature. We are deeply committed to protecting the environments that are essential not just to our sports but to our lives. We are acutely aware of the urgency of the task we face. We look forward to working with Sports for Nature – for the good of snow sports, and the good of our planet."
"Combining sport and respect for nature is for me not only evident but an essential responsibility to assume,” said H.S.H. Albert II of Monaco, an IUCN Patron of Nature, Olympian and Chair of the IOC Sustainability and Legacy Commission. “We need to harness everyone’s energy, and continue to do so even more, so evident is the environmental crisis and so tragic its consequences.”
“I see this as a powerful contribution to the 2030 Sustainability Agenda,” added H.S.H. Albert II of Monaco. “Creating stronger ties and cooperation between sectors is vital for reaching global goals of preservation of nature and biodiversity.”
FIS President Johan Eliasch was invited by French President Emmanuel Macron and His Majesty the King Charles III to the Climate and Nature Finance Mobilisation Forum at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris to discuss with company chief executives and leading organisations on how to best support action on tackling climate change and nature loss in emerging and developing economies.
The gathering brought together key figures from the private and public sector to identify how to go faster to mobilise investment and financing to deploy climate and nature solutions.
The participants at the Forum discussed practical actions that investors and companies are already taking to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss and what more can be done to increase investment particularly in emerging markets and developing economies.
President Eliasch presented the FIS Rainforest Initiative and FIS’ commitment to investing in communities in Peru by supporting the charity Cool Earth. He highlighted that the deforestation project focuses on educating local young people to become tomorrow’s successful farmers and protectors of the rainforest and that by off-setting its total carbon footprint many times over through the Rainforest Initiative, FIS has become the world’s first Climate Positive sports federation.
President Eliasch after the Forum: “The panel has underlined that we are on the right track with our FIS Rainforest Initiative. Up to 20 per cent of global emissions are accounted for by rainforest destruction. By giving direct to communities in Peru to conserve these vital forests, we make a significant difference to global emissions and strengthen biodiversity. This fight can’t be left to governments and policymakers alone. We have a responsibility to help preserve the habitats on which our sport depends – and we continue to take that responsibility very seriously.”
