The Centre for Sport and Human Rights (CSHR) is delighted to announce a new report prepared by the Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP), ‘Mapping Rights and Duties at the Intersection of Sport, Human Rights and the Climate Crisis’ (170 pages; click on the title to download a pdf). CSHR commissioned and supported this important piece of research and analysis, which was conducted by students at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law with inputs from Lucy Amis and Shubham Jain from CSHR. The report examines key human rights at risk in relation to the climate crisis and sport, and begins the process to identify the affected stakeholders—from athletes to local communities—and pinpoints the responsibilities of state and non-state actors across the global sports ecosystem to protect and respect the rights of affected stakeholders.
At a launch event (see above) at Christ’s College Cambridge this week, Lucy Amis and Matt Stone of the Centre were pleased to share a panel with CPP Executive Director Léa Weimann and the research team headed by Tonia Schockmel to set out the context and key findings from the report. This was followed by expert panellists Dave Lockwood (Sustainable sport journalist and analyst), Mike Duignan (University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Centre for Events and Festivals), together with the CSHR and CPP team leads, engaged in a constructive discussion on how to take the report’s findings forward, with important audience contributions from Charlotte Brierley and Suzanne Harding (Sky) and Cambridge academics.
The launch was recorded (mostly for sound). Watch and hear it on Youtube (c. 2 hours).Read the Executive Summary of the report(26 pages) here.
