The International Orienteering Federation is still well on its way to achieving its goals for lowering climate emissions.
This appears from IOF’s Carbon Budget Report for 2023, which estimates the CO2 emissions of the federation in the past year and has just been released.
The report has been created by IOF’s Environment and Sustainability Commission and Office based on reports from around 120 people in IOF’s office, Council and commissions and estimates the total emissions in 2023 to 83,76 tonnes CO2e
Total emissions have thus grown by 56% in 2023 compared to 2022, but are still much lower – at about a quarter – of the level in the baseline year 2019.
This is in line with the commitment to remain below the 50%-line of the baseline every year until 2030.
The increase from 2022 to 2023 can be explained by the level of activities within IOF reaching a full level after the covid-19 pandemic.
When it is still far below the 2019 level, it is due to a number of measures taken by the IOF, e.g. to replace physical meetings with digital ones.
IOF is one of several hundred signatories of the UNFCCC and IOC Sports for Climate Action initiative, which aims at supporting and guiding sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.
As partner of the Sports for Climate Action movement, IOF has also signed the renewed commitments of the Race-to-Zero campaign and decided to exceed them by keeping under the level of emissions of 50% of the base year (2019) throughout the whole period until 2030, instead of gradual approach. 2023 emissions are well within the 50% limit.
The full Carbon Budget Report for 2023 can be found in the Environment and Sustainability section on the homepage.