ABSTRACT
Taking stock of the European Union’s (EU's) efforts to promote environmental sustainability in sport, this chapter explores to what extent EU sports policy has implemented environmental objectives and whether these have had any impact. It explains the status quo and to identify the way forward, it also analyzes the barriers to integrating environmental sustainability in the EU's sport-related actions. The chapter presents to promote environmental sustainability in sport, the EU can rely on its potential to coordinate, support, and steer the actions of member states and international federations. Member states and sport actors are not actively encouraged to implement environmental objectives, and performance is not seriously monitored or evaluated through target-setting and monitoring. Green budgeting allocates space in public budgets for environmental policies. Green public procurement, then, takes place when contracting authorities use environmental criteria to decide from whom to purchase goods or services.
