Sustainability strategy for Germany’s 2024 European Football Championship bid

The German Football Association (DFB) has published a sustainability concept for its bid to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA Euro 2024), which includes a 100 percent renewable electricity goal, as well as the plan to develop “ambitious climate protection targets.” “Germany is considered the world over as a pioneer in climate protection and has committed to the Paris Agreement. We therefore feel it only obvious that UEFA Euro 2024 also make a contribution to achieving the climate protection goals and takes suitable measures to keep the tournament’s climate impact to a minimum,” says the concept, which was developed in partnership with the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), and not requested by UEFA as part of the official bid book. UEFA will appoint the host of Euro 2024 in September 2018.

Find the DFB press release in English here, the concept in English here, and the Öko-Institut press release in English here.