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Measuring our footprint, reducing our impact and acting for the environmental sustainability of sport

Get trained as a Climate Action Officer with our Pedagogical Guide, measure your footprint with our CO₂ Calculator, get inspired to reduce your footprint thanks to our Pool of Actions and the Reduction Strategies of 18 NOCs.

WANT TO MEASURE AND REDUCE
THE CARBON FOOTPRINT
OF YOUR SPORT ORGANISATION?

With the OCEAN tools:

Get trained as a Climate Action Officer

Measure your sport organisation's carbon footprint

Reduce your sport organisation's carbon footprint

MEASURE YOUR SPORT ORGANISATION’S CARBON FOOTPRINT

Energy & Buildings

Events

Procurement

Travel

Catering

The OCEAN Sport CO Calculator is a carbon footprint measurement tool tailor-made by and for sport organisations, available online and free of use.

The tool allows NOCs, international/continental/national federations and sport organisations of all kinds to calculate the carbon footprint of its daily operations and events.

Following the measurement, you can visualise your organisation’s baseline and identify areas for improvement to set targeted reduction goals.

Ready to track, manage & reduce your carbon footprint with the OCEAN Sport CO₂ Calculator?

Simple data collection
Effortlessly enter details about your organisation’s work — a streamlined way to capture activity data.

Automated carbon footprint calculation
The tool instantly calculates your emissions using region-specific emission factors.
Clear visual insights
Get illustrated results that help you understand and track your footprint.


Illustration of reduction targets
See the impact of area-specific reduction targets on your total carbon footprint

Compare your results to 18 NOCs' footprint baseline

In the framework of the OCEAN project, 18 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have measured their carbon footprint in 2022 with the support of Öko-Institut, to test the OCEAN Carbon Footprint Measurement Tool and ensure its practicability for sport organisations.

Discover the Analysis of the NOCs' carbon footprint for the baseline year 2022.

GET TRAINED AS A CLIMATE ACTION OFFICER

Every sport organisations should have one staff member dedicated to conducting the reduction process of the organisation’s impact on climate change, the Climate Action Officer.

The Guide for Climate Action Officers offers recommendations to help you drive tangible climate action within your sport organisation, thanks to scientific resources combined with best-practice examples and advice from sport organisations.

You will learn about:

  • Navigating the responsibilities of the role of a Climate Action Officer
  • Understanding your organisation’s impact and measuring its carbon footprint
  • Creating a carbon footprint reduction strategy
  • Communicating your efforts and successes
For 2.5 years, the 18 OCEAN Climate Action Officers have led the way in their National Olympic Committee. They have been the actors of change in their organisation by: 
  • Convincing their leaders and colleagues of the necessity of changing
  • Measuring their carbon footprint
  • Drafting a carbon footprint reduction strategy

Listen to their stories and get inspired to lead the way in your organisation, too!

REDUCE YOUR SPORT ORGANISATION’S CARBON FOOTPRINT

The measurement of your sport organisation’s carbon footprint is only the beginning of the process. After understanding your organisation’s impact and getting inspiration from other organisations, the next step is to adopt your own reduction strategy.

Measuring your organisation's footprint only has an impact if followed by the development of a reduction strategy. The 18 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the OCEAN Project have adopted tailored Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategies, with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Get inspired by the 18 Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategies to develop your own.

Get inspired by the Pool of Actions

The Pool of Actions is an extensive list of 100+ measures and good practices examples to reduce your organisation’s carbon footprint. Draw inspiration from these measures and include them in your carbon footprint reduction strategy.

Download the Pool of Actions here.

Below is a brief overview of measures you will find in the Pool of Actions

Carrying out an energy check.

  • Practicability: easy
  • Costs: Medium
  • Possible impact: Medium

Purchase of energy-efficient appliances

  • Practicability: Medium
  • Costs: High

Possible impact: Medium

Incentives for spectators to use public transport

  • Practicability: Medium
  • Costs: Low
  • Possible impact: High

Accessibility of the event venue

  • Practicability: Medium
  • Cost: Medium
  • Possible impact: Medium

Use rented material or systems e.g. for exhibition stands or IT systems

  • Practicability: High
  • Cost: Medium
  • Possible impact: Low

Reduced use of packaging

  • Practicability: High
  • Cost: Low
  • Possible impact: High

Reduction of business trips (online meetings)

  • Practicability: High
  • Costs: Low
  • Possible impact: High

Use of environmentally-friendly mobility means

  • Practicability: Medium
  • Costs: Medium
  • Possible impact: High

High share of vegetarian /vegan options in meals

  • Practicability: Medium
  • Costs: Low
  • Possible impact: High

Smaller quantities of food to avoid food waste

  • Practicability: High
  • Costs: Low
  • Possible impact: Low

About the OCEAN Project

The OCEAN project aims to empower sport organisations to acquire knowledge to measure their carbon footprint and define reduction strategies and strengthen good governance in the field of climate action.

The OCEAN project runs from January 2023 to July 2025 - under the guidance of the EOC EU Office. OCEAN gathers a consortium involving 18 European NOCs, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), and the Öko-Institut.

The OCEAN project is a Cooperation Partnership co-financed by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ Programme.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OCEAN PROJECT

About us

The EOC EU Office is the House of European Sport, representing the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the IOC and other major sport organisations to the European institutions in Brussels.
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