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Welcome to the GSHE library, a tool in which you can find many green initiatives conducted all over the world.

Please note, this tool is under construction and will be continuously updated with new initiatives.

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The Ski World Championships (Ski-VM) aims to organize the world’s most sustainable sports event in 2025
Event management
level: advanced

The Ski World Championships (Ski-VM) aims to organize the world’s most sustainable sports event in 2025

The Ski World Championships (Ski-VM) aims to organize the world’s most sustainable sports event in 2025. To achieve this, they have identified some flagship projects that they want to...
129 electric cars enable the world’s first bicycle race with fully electric support vehicles during the Arctic Race of Norway
Event management
level: advanced

129 electric cars enable the world’s first bicycle race with fully electric support vehicles during the Arctic Race of Norway

Reduce emissions by support vehicles following a World Tour bike race by changing the car fleet to electric...
Chart on the environmental sustainability of football – Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio
Governance
level: frontrunner

Chart on the environmental sustainability of football – Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio

This Chart wishes to be a reference document for the organizations that in the future will undertake paths of environmental sustainability in the national football...
How did an international sports competition switch to gourds? – French Gymnastics Federation X Gobi | FRANCE
Resources management
level: progressing

How did an international sports competition switch to gourds? – French Gymnastics Federation X Gobi | FRANCE

Gobi equipped the International Gymnastics Championships with more than 700 water bottles made in France, distributed among the gymnasts, the members of each country’s delegation, the...
Aviron Bayonnais becomes the first sports club with a mission – FRANCE
Governance
level: frontrunner

Aviron Bayonnais becomes the first sports club with a mission – FRANCE

Aviron Bayonnais, the flagship club of French rugby, has become a company with a mission. It is the first French professional sports club to become one, and the result of a big work on the CSR of...
Move4Nature – ENGSO Youth good practices
Natural environment
level: advanced

Move4Nature – ENGSO Youth good practices

Use physical activity and hiking as a tool to promote green actions and environmental protection among the European...
Youth for Sustainable Development – ENGSO Youth good practices
Event management
level: frontrunner

Youth for Sustainable Development – ENGSO Youth good practices

Initiate a sustainable change within their communities through organizing sport events (such as competitions, forums, open days, workshops and...
Sport for Sustainable Development – ENGSO Youth good practices
Event management
level: progressing

Sport for Sustainable Development – ENGSO Youth good practices

The project was a collaboration between 5 partners from 3 continents: Europe, Africa and Asia: ENGSO Youth as the coordinator, Hungarian University of Physical Education, Sport and Citizenship,...
ZERO WASTE EVENT: PARTICIPANTS RULES – FRANCE
Event management
level: beginner

ZERO WASTE EVENT: PARTICIPANTS RULES – FRANCE

To create a zero-waste, zero-waste event, the “waste” issue must be taken into account upstream, when organising the event, and downstream, by allowing waste to be sorted and recycled....
Sustainable medals for Rugby World Cup 2023 – France
Resources management
level: beginner

Sustainable medals for Rugby World Cup 2023 – France

Reduce the impact of a major global event by producing sustainable medals.  Winners of the 2023 Rugby World Cup will receive medals which have been produced from more than 200,000 recycled...
Resources management
level: beginner

Tour de France – Litter strategy
Governance
level: beginner

European Athletics – Sustainable strategy
Resources management
level: progressing

Green Cycling Norway – Waste management
Event management
level: beginner

Tackle
Event management
level: beginner

Mobility strategy – Oh Leuven
Facilities
level: beginner

UKactive – decarbonisation strategy
Governance
level: progressing

ACCESS project
Event management
level: advanced

Tour of Scandinavia
Facilities
level: advanced

Planica Nordic Center

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Natural environment
level: frontrunner

Plastic origins
Event management
level: progressing

Rugby Europe’s event strategy
Governance
level: advanced

Sustainable strategy NOC Slovenia
Governance
level: frontrunner

Sustainable strategy Union Saint Gilloise club
Event management
level: frontrunner

CEV Coaches Convention
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION CODE – SLOVENIA
Governance
level: advanced

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION CODE – SLOVENIA

The purpose of the code is to increase the awareness of all sport practitioners that sport bears its share social responsibilities in the fields of environmental and nature...
15 ENGAGEMENTS CHARTER FOR EVENT ORGANISERS – FRANCE​
Event management
level: advanced

15 ENGAGEMENTS CHARTER FOR EVENT ORGANISERS – FRANCE​

The purpose of the Charter is to engage and legally bind event organisers to follow sustainable rules in order to reach ambitious sustainability goals on the eve of Paris Olympic Games...
SEPARATE WASTE COLLECTION IN STADIUMS – BELGIUM​
Host/Venue selection
level: beginner

SEPARATE WASTE COLLECTION IN STADIUMS – BELGIUM​

Belgium Football Team’s hosting stadium did not have any separate collection scheme and all waste generated in the stadium ends in general waste. The main objective of this initiative was to improve...
RUGBY EUROPE’s EVENTS – EUROPE
Governance
level: beginner

RUGBY EUROPE’s EVENTS – EUROPE

The objective of Rugby Europe’s “Combined Events” strategy is to reduce intensively the global carbon footprint of the European Confederation of Rugby when the structure is organising global...
REUSABLE CUPS AT AVIVA STADIUM – IRELAND 
Resources management
level: beginner

REUSABLE CUPS AT AVIVA STADIUM – IRELAND 

Most of the recyclables collected during games at AVIVA stadium are plastic cups, especially in case of rugby games. However, although a proper treatment is ensured for them by a private contractor,...
CLEAN WIN: SUSTAINABLE SPORTS EVENTS – SLOVENIA ​
Event management
level: advanced

CLEAN WIN: SUSTAINABLE SPORTS EVENTS – SLOVENIA ​

The overall project aim was to identify and promote good practices and activities for organisers, local communities and individuals for more sustainable sports events. Sustainable practices in the...
GREEN INSPIRATION – EUROPE ​
Resources management
level: beginner

GREEN INSPIRATION – EUROPE ​

Since its creation in 2013, the main objective of European Athletics’ Green Inspiration program is to raise general public and organizers’ awareness in the field of environmental protection and...
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES GAMES COIMBRA 2018 – PORTUGAL​
Event management
level: advanced

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES GAMES COIMBRA 2018 – PORTUGAL​

During the multisport event European Universities Games Coimbra 2018, local organisers were encouraged to also pay attention on sustainability and introduce elements and activities in this...
MISSION: TRIGLAV GLACIER TO BEIJING – SLOVENIA
Natural environment
level: beginner

MISSION: TRIGLAV GLACIER TO BEIJING – SLOVENIA

Triglav Glacier to Beijing is an environmental communications campaign organised by the Slovenian Olympic Committee. The project’s key goal is raising awareness on global warming and its immediate...
WASTE COLLECTION & QUANTIFICATION – EUROPE​
Natural environment
level: frontrunner

WASTE COLLECTION & QUANTIFICATION – EUROPE​

The objective of the Ocean Initiative Program is to engage volunteers, audience and athletes in a waste collections on the competition site, to understand and resolve the issue of marine pollution...
BEACH VOLLEY-BALL BADEN – AUSTRIA​
Resources management
level: advanced

BEACH VOLLEY-BALL BADEN – AUSTRIA​

The objective behind the organisation of the Beach Volley-Ball Baden is quite simple: the organisers are set to use all materials and resources from an economical, ecological and social...
PLANICA NORDIC CENTRE – SLOVENIA​
Facilities
level: advanced

PLANICA NORDIC CENTRE – SLOVENIA​

The objective of this public institute is to place the sport and development centre as close as possible as nature. Where else than the renowned National Park Triglav in the middle of forests and...
GREEN GAMES be fair by nature – MONTENEGRO​
Natural environment
level: beginner

GREEN GAMES be fair by nature – MONTENEGRO​

The objectives of education, but the complete project as well, is that all national associations and their technical staff attend training and adopt the drafted solutions and recommendations, and...
GREEN RUGBY TRY – HUNGARY​
Event management
level: progressing

GREEN RUGBY TRY – HUNGARY​

The National Rugby Federation of Hungary has implemented initiatives in favour of green transportation and mobility during the organisation of the 2021 Men & Women Trophy Tournament. This event...
AMBASSADORS SPORT – FRANCE / SPAIN / SERBIA​
Governance
level: progressing

AMBASSADORS SPORT – FRANCE / SPAIN / SERBIA​

To attract people’s attention on Sustainability matters through the voice and image of ambassadors acting as role models for athletics’ fans. As it could be athletes, but also volunteers, the...
SPORT EVENT ZERO WASTE – FRANCE
Resources management
level: advanced

SPORT EVENT ZERO WASTE – FRANCE

This booklet proposes actions aimed at minimizing the production of waste related in the sports events sector. It is based in particular on the approach of “4R”: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, and only if...
SPORT ZERO PLASTIQUE – FRANCE​
Resources management
level: progressing

SPORT ZERO PLASTIQUE – FRANCE​

Sport Zéro Plastique is a project aiming to eliminate single-use plastic in amateur sport in Paris. The objective: to demonstrate that the best practices emerging in the field can put plastic on the...
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MEASURES GUIDE – SPAIN​
Event management
level: frontrunner

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MEASURES GUIDE – SPAIN​

Establishes a series of measures that guide Trail event organizers Running to carry out risk prevention, protection and minimization actions that this type of competition can generate in the...