What to Expect:
Gain insights from the ESSMA Summit in Madrid:
- Navigate the different sustainability directives
- Filippo Veglio from UEFA outlined UEFA’s frameworks, such as the Football Sustainability Strategy 2030 and ECA webinars, which help clubs meet sustainability targets through structured licensing requirements.
- Menno Kooistra from KPMG elaborated on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which mandates footba l clubs and stadiums to include detailed ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics in their reports.
- Magdalena Nour from Malmö FF shared practical examples from the FREE KICKS project, illustrating how EU funds can offset initial costs of sustainability initiatives while delivering long-term financial and environmental benefits.
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Learn how to reduce energy consumption in stadiums
John Creamer from A4MT and Dominique Gatto from AS Monaco provided valuable insights into the Energy Championship initiative. This groundbreaking project brought together stadiums and arenas across Europe to tackle energy consumption, achieving an impressive average energy savings of 14.6%. -
Gain insights into the sustainability initiatives at Croke Park
Peter McKenna from Croke Park shared insights into the sustainability efforts of Croke Park, highlighting the venue’s achievements in waste management, energy efficiency and biodiversity. -
Learn how to build sustainable and net-zero stadium
Carolien Gehrels from Arcadishighlighted the importance of adopting a holistic approach to stadium design, incorporating domains such as energy, mobility, circularity and biodiversity. - Einsights in how to take sustainability from theory to practice
Menno Kooistra from KPMG and Sander van Stiphout from the Johan Cruijff ArenA shared key insights on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and aligning with ESG frameworks. Sander van Stiphout presented an in-depth case study on the Johan Cruijff ArenA’s ambitious journey to achieve net-positive status by 2030, showcasing their innovative strategies and forward-thinking goals. -
Discover how a sustainability industry standard has been developed and the use case of it
FKelly Ruigrok from GSES presented an innovative framework for benchmarking sustainability efforts in the sports and entertainment industries. It simplifies sustainability benchmarking and compliance, providing a clear pathway for organisations to measure and improve their impact.
Expert interviews:
- ECA – Dr. Gaia Pretner: on the challenges in sustainability procurement, regulations & certificantions, how to adress mobility challenges, a strategic approach to certification, fostering collaboration and initiating sustainability strategies.
- Belgian Pro League – Andreas De Roeck: offered a glimpse into football’s evolving sustainability landscape from a League perspective. He explained more about the shift from traditional ESG principles to the more rigious CSRD, the impact of CSRD and the challenges their clubs are facing.
- RC Strasbourg Alsace – Julien Hochedez: The redevelopment of Stade de la Meinau features unique sustainability elements, including exemplary energy efficiency, renewable energy use, recycled materials, and connection to a heat network. Notably, part of an airplane fuselage is being repurposed as a windbreaker.
- Borussia Dortmund – Felix Timpe: on the different sustainability-focused upgrades of their home stadium ahead of hosting matches of the UEFA Euro 2024.
- Hamburger SV – Daniel Nolte: on how they prepared the stadium sustainable ahead of hosting matches of the UEFA Euro 2024.
- RB Leipzig – Ulrich Wolter: on how they geared up the stadium sustainable ahead of hosting matches of the UEFA Euro 2024.
- Schalke 04 – Volker Fürderer: on how thet embrached sustainability in its preperation of hosting matches of the UEFA Euro 2024.
- Olympia Stadium – Christoph Meyer: on their new systems enhancing sustainability at the stadium.
- UEFA – Alexandre Huber: on how they organised UEFA EURO 2024 sustainably, minimising the tournament’s environmental impact and setting a lasting precedent for future sporting events.
Discover key insights from our research, based on our Sustainability survey and mastermind sessions with 35 clubs across 8 countries in Europe:
- The self-rating of clubs and stadiums on their sustainability efforts
- The collaboration rate between clubs, stadium and other organiations
- The motivations for investing into sustainbility
- The most common sustainability initiatives
- The focus of clubs/stadiums on future investments
- Percentage of clubs/stadiums that monitor their energy usage
- Percentage of clubs/stadiums that have introduced energy-efficient systems
- The awareness on sustainability standards
- the (future) impact of the CSRD
- The opinion on sustainability requirements in licensing
- The appointment rate of sustainability managers
The ESSMA Stadium Industry Awards:
- Find out who received awards and the initiatives that earned them recognition.
UEFA’s Football Sustainability Strategy 2030:
- What is it?
- Why developed?
- The impact
The ESSMA Support Program:
- we have defined 3 tracks to support our members and created a collaboration with the Johan Cruijff ArenA, KPMG and GSES to offer a comprehensive program that meets members expectations.
- Join or receive more information by contacting Dimitri Huygen at [email protected].
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