Basketball, ice-climbing, Swimming, Surfing – athletes from various disciplines make use of successes to the attention of their sport, to encourage others to environmental protection and sustainability.
Athletes experience the effects of climate change and environmental pollution often immediately – be it on the ice , in the sea or after a game abandoned plastic waste.
The DW presents not a few of the athletes that come to terms with the destruction of the environment by the people, but the awareness for more environmental protection to strengthen it.
Gadd Wants The Ice Climbers
Will Gadd is more than just a world-class Athlete and adventurer: He makes with his name on the threat posed by climate change to the attention of and even helps to collect Climate scientists valuable data from some of the most hard-to-reach places in the world.
The canadian was appointed to the UN Environment Mountain Hero, because he is learning the science helped you to better understand how Arctic ice is changing.
Gadd climbed into the dangerous Moulins, in order to explore the conditions under which the Greenland ice cap. Moulins are glacial mills, so vertical Eisschächte, the transport of surface water in the direction of the Glacier surface. Although the Greenland ice sheet is the second largest in the world, it is researched so far at least. Gadds trip was for the researchers, therefore, particularly useful. Apart from the study of glaciers in the name of science Gadd is also known for being the first of the frozen Niagara falls climbed.
Lewis Pugh – The Float
Lewis Pugh is often referred to as the “Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming” – and for good reason. So, as Hillary is known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest first climbed, the British-South African long-distance swimmer Pugh, the first Person to officially swim in each of the five world’s oceans, long-range distances.
After Pugh had felt the result of environmental pollution and climate change damage caused in the truest sense of the word in the flesh, he is swimming today, hard-to-trails in sensitive Ecosystems, in order to make their devastating condition. In 2007, he happened to be floating in the melting ice at the North pole. In 2018 he was the first person, of the whole of the channel through the sponge. The attention he use to have the protection of 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030, demand.
Pugh missed no Chance to pull the heads of government of the world be in the spotlight. While in 2006, along the Thames sponge to make to the drought in England, he jumped up when he came up to London, out of the water and visited the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 10 Downing Street a visit. He told him to be against climate change. Shortly afterwards, the government introduced a climate protection law. It is therefore no wonder that he has helped to shape the concept of “Speedo-diplomacy”.
Gretchen Bleiler – The Snowboarder
Since her Retirement in 2014, the snowboard icon and former Olympian has spent a lot of time in order to raise the environmental awareness of others through lobbying. Bleiler is encouraged to be a member of the Protect Our Winters Riders Alliance , the winter sports enthusiasts to become climate activists.
Protests on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and lectures at major international events such as the United Nations climate change conference in Paris (COP21), it has made everything. Bleiler is also the “21 Day Reusable Challenge was started by” in the process, everyone involved should be avoided, if possible, three weeks on plastic bottles, disposable shopping bags and Styrofoam.
Lauri Markkanen – The Basketball Player
This up and coming basketball star has committed to eat red meat in order to minimize its CO2 footprint. Markkanen is part of the #DontChoke campaign of the Finnish energy company Neste, which encouraged others to follow his example and commit themselves to take concrete steps to protect the environment.
Fans carry on his Mission, an eco-friendly life, to keep up to date, the NBA Athlete is often social media. Topics include consumption, among other things, Driving electric cars, Recycling, and the minimization of power.
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Sally Fitzgibbons – The Surfer
As with all professional surfers Sally Fitzgibbons spends more time in the water than other people. This also means that after recognizing the pollution of our oceans and its consequences on a daily basis.
In addition to the Surfing, the Australian spends the majority of their time in order to make our environment aware of problems and uses her platform to inspire the next Generation to protect and preserve our water ways.
Andrew Ference – Hockey Player
After Andrew Ference after 19 years from the game of North American professional hockey League NHL had stepped back, he turned to another longtime passion: the environment.
Together with his canadian colleagues, and environmentalist David Suzuki, he founded the NHL Players’ Association Carbon Neutral Challenge . The aim is to bring players to their frequent travel CO2 emissions offset by purchasing CO2-certificates. The money is then used for the financing of initiatives for alternative energies such as Solar and wind power, and biofuel. Thanks to Ference, the NHL is today one of the leading providers in the field of environmental protection in the sports world, with many arenas to use solar panels and LED lights to reduce their CO2 emissions.
Kevin Anderson – Tennis Star
Of plastic packaging on fresh tennis rackets to Fans, drinking their cool drinks through plastic straws in the stands: plastic is also in the world of tennis anywhere.
Kevin Anderson, the number 5 in the world rankings, believes that the players themselves need to do more to promote sustainability in their sports. He has used his influence as an athlete, so that the consumption of plastic, especially single-use plastics such as the network covers, and disposable water bottles will be reduced. Off the court, Anderson also supports the Trash Free Sea Alliance, the Ocean Conservancy.