Green Sport Awards nominees announced

The BBC Green Sport Awards return to item nan group and organisations who are wished to make a existent quality to sustainability successful sport.

The 2025 arena takes spot astatine nan BBC's Broadcasting House connected Monday, 6 October, pinch awards presented to those committed to alteration to make athletics lend to a amended world.

The nominees are...

Fran Kirby

Brighton and England footballer Fran Kirby teamed up pinch World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) earlier this twelvemonth to create a Prescription for Nature - sharing really quality has boosted her intelligence wellbeing.

A European Championship victor successful 2022, nan 32-year-old has chosen to usage her enhanced floor plan and pursuing connected societal media to speak up connected issues of ambiance change, focusing connected nan affirmative impacts quality tin person connected america all.

"When I'm retired successful quality it's astir calming maine down. It's astir being capable to refocus, displacement my mindset and reset," she said.

Hannah Mills

The two-time Olympic sailing golden medallist has been a starring sound connected sustainability issues passim her career.

As she was preparing for nan rescheduled Tokyo Olympics successful 2021, she supported nan Challenge 6,000 campaign, which attempted to region 6,000 pieces of litter from nan sea.

This year, nan 37-year-old spearheaded an unfastened missive earlier nan International Olympic Committee's statesmanlike elections successful March that encouraged bold ambiance leadership. It was signed by much than 450 athletes.

Hector Pardoe

An Olympic open-water swimmer, Pardoe often encounters first-hand polluted waters, which he says person caused him and his team-mates to go unwell connected galore occasions.

Pardoe, 24, has regularly utilized his level connected societal medial to station astir issues astir h2o quality, and describes himself arsenic a plant-based athlete.

This summertime he completed a world first - taking portion successful nan Three Lakes Challenge for Clean Water, he became nan first personification successful history to aquatics Britain's 3 largest lakes backmost to backmost successful nether 24 hours. He did truthful to bring astir much consciousness of h2o contamination and raise costs for Surfers Against Sewage.

Hector Bellerin

Former Arsenal footballer Hector Bellerin is 1 of nan highest-profile footballers to usage their important level and sound to talk astir sustainability.

Now a Real Betis player, nan 30-year-old has taken a activity domiciled arsenic nan main ambassador for Forever Green - his club's non-profit sustainability programme.

Bellerin's passion for sustainability has besides seeped done into his clothes. Last year, he released his ain clothing brand, which useful pinch deadstock materials to trim waste.

He antecedently group up an inaugural to works 3,000 trees successful nan Amazon for each triumph his squad achieved during his clip astatine Arsenal, and has spoken critically astir nan plans Fifa - football's world governing assemblage - has for nan 2030 World Cup.

Earlier this year, Bellerin was named successful National Geographic's 33 for 2025 list, and became an ambassador for Green Football's Great Save campaign.

Jessie Diggins

The astir successful American cross-country skier of each time, Jessie Diggins has won 3 medals astatine nan Olympics and 7 astatine World Championships.

In April 2025, Diggins and her American team-mates wore special-edition skis suits astatine nan World Championships that depicted a pouring crystal headdress arsenic a measurement of speaking up astir world warming.

The 34-year-old has devoted her level connected societal media to raising consciousness astir ambiance change, pinch accordant nationalist speaking done interviews and media appearances, discussing nan effects world warming has connected snowfall sports.

Sebastian Vettel

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel continues to carve retired a caller bequest for himself distant from nan racetrack.

Since retiring, Vettel has taken connected galore projects - large and small.

In 2023, he launched a bee sanctuary astatine nan Suzuka F1 circuit successful Japan - a symbolic task that combines his racing profession pinch his passion for nan environment. That first bee sanctuary has now expanded to a bee meadow successful his autochthonal Germany.

During nan 2022 season, he stopped travelling to grands prix by plane, alternatively choosing to thrust to arsenic galore of nan circuits arsenic he could to debar taking soul European flights.

In nan past 12 months, nan 38-year-old has peculiarly focused his attraction connected what is happening wrong nan Amazon rainforest - 1 of nan astir endangered ecosystems connected nan planet.

While successful Brazil, he visited nan Kayapo group - an indigenous people who unrecorded in, and depend, connected nan Amazon. By highlighting this, Vettel is bringing galore caller eyes to nan devastating effects of deforestation.

Sofie Junge Pedersen

Danish footballer Sofie Junge Pedersen has go good known for biology activism passim her career, and past twelvemonth was named by nan Guardian arsenic its footballer of nan twelvemonth for her activity successful this area.

The 33-year-old's committedness to environmentalism is long-standing.

In 2023, she led a group of 44 players to offset their flights to nan Women's World Cup successful Australia and New Zealand. And complete nan past 12 months, she has continued to telephone upon European football's governing assemblage Uefa to instruction clubs to return trains alternatively of planes wherever possible.

Arsenal

Arsenal were nan first Premier League nine to motion up for nan UN Sports for Climate Action Framework and are aiming to execute net-zero c emissions by 2040.

All of their sites - including Emirates Stadium - are powered utilizing renewable energy. Their 3mw mega artillery enables them to debar relying connected nan grid during highest times and to shop cleanable power for usage connected matchdays. They person besides importantly reduced matchday single-use plastics and are entering into their sixth play of utilizing only reusable cups astatine nan stadium.

They person besides introduced a h2o recycling strategy astatine their training ground, which tin proviso up to 20 cardinal litres of h2o a year.

In May, they trialled a codification for their supporters to declare a discount connected their obstruction recreation to an distant lucifer successful Liverpool. They person besides been planting trees successful nan UK and astatine nan Arsenal wood successful Kenya - to offset nan c emissions of recreation for nan squad and supporters.

Formula E

Formula E has been nett zero since time 1 of its first play successful 2014. It was nan first motorsport to beryllium recognised for sustainable arena guidance and nan first to subordinate nan UN Sports for Climate Action Framework.

The Gen 3 Race car is afloat recyclable, being built retired of c fibre and earthy rubber.

In January, Formula E introduced a caller characteristic astatine prime races passim nan play called pit boost - an electrical conveyance recharging exertion that delivers a 10% power summation via a 30-second, 600kW complaint successful nan pit lane - advancements made for nan way that could use mundane electrical vehicles astir nan world for wide user use.

Jog On

In 2009, Tony Piedade group up Jogging Buddy - a free level to thief group buddy up for a tally aliases locomotion - but successful 2020 he became concerned that successful facilitating others to get retired running, nan knock-on effect could beryllium much trainers reaching landfill.

Jog On distributes usable shoes to schools, charities and organisations successful nan UK, Africa and South America. Piedade told nan Guardian: "Trainers that can't beryllium reused spell done a certified process to support them retired of landfill, and are incinerated to create electricity."

In July 2025, nan organisation celebrated a milestone arsenic it announced 40 cardinal tonnes of shoes had avoided landfill since it started its campaign.

With nan support of nan Outdoor Industries Association, Jog On is now looking to widen its remit to stepping boots and shoes.

Sport England

In 2024, Sport England launched its first biology sustainability strategy - Every Move - which required each of its 130 partners, including nationalist athletics governing bodies, to person robust sustainability plans successful spot by March 2027 arsenic a information of funding.

This summer, Sport England went moreover further - allocating £16m from its Movement Fund exclusively to support greenish athletics initiatives. Community sports clubs and beingness activity groups aiming to boost their greenish credentials are encouraged to use for grants ranging from £300 to £15,000.

London Marathon

The London Marathon has agelong led nan measurement connected sustainability issues, introducing galore initiatives to raceday itself to offset nan effect of 50,000 runners and much than a cardinal supporters crowding into London for nan race.

A caller inaugural astatine nan 2025 London Marathon was a aviator strategy to cod 1,000 litres of urine for usage arsenic fertiliser. In business pinch female urinal institution Peequal and fertiliser master NPK Recovery, litres of urine were processed into fertiliser for crops alternatively of entering nan sewage system.