ABSTRACT
The Sport Positive English Premier League Sustainability Table was devised, researched, and launched by Sport Positive in 2019, and updated in 2020. This ranking highlights Premier League clubs’ actions to reduce their climate impact across eight environmental categories—from sustainable transport to plant-based food and communications. The English Premier League has an approximate cumulative audience of 3.2 billion people. By clubs taking bold climate action and talking to their fans, huge impacts can be generated for Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13). This work’s initial strategy was to more deeply understand all clubs’ activity: to gain a perspective on how seriously they were taking their environmental stewardship and which areas they focused their efforts on. As discussed in this chapter, the findings of this table were heartening. All Premier League clubs had some activity across all the categories—there were none at all who weren’t taking some positive steps toward sustainability.
