Levelling the Playing Field

Research which examines how sports clubs can engage fans and members on community-led climate action, specifically home retrofitting and heat pump installation.

Football and climate action, or more specifically, football and energy justice, are words that one would normally not be accustomed to seeing together in a sentence. This unlikely nexus is what we, at Friends of the Earth, would like to draw on through our joint report with Bohemians Football Club in order to illuminate two main converging points. This project marks a fundamental shift in the discourse surrounding climate action, moving it beyond the realms of environmental activists and policy circles, into the everyday lived realities of ordinary people through trusted community spaces like sports clubs. Second, it illuminates the power of engaging local communities in progressing energy retrofits – and climate action at large.