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Thank you for your support this year! 🙏 As the mega-polluting 2026 World Cup draws closer, let's keep pushing together for a better football ⚽🤝🌍

Backlash against FIFA reached new levels, after a painfully fawning World Cup draw that included the awarding of a special 'peace prize' to Donald Trump 🤢 We used the moment to recognise Gianni Infantino with his own award, for 'climate impact' 🏆

After a powerful fan campaign, Arsenal bowed to pressure and choose to break their links with Visit Rwanda! 🔴 A real lesson in the power of supporter activism. Why not start your own campaign in 2026?! ✊

Europe saw another dangerous heat and fire season, threatening much loved summer grassroots football ⚽ Fans jumped in to protect their communities, but UEFA continue to take money to promote big polluters 💸

Dangerous heat and storms, worsened by FIFA's polluting decision making, severely impacted the competition 👇 Many of the same issues around dangerous weather and polluting sponsorship remain relevant in the context of the 2026 World Cup 😳

FIFA's expanded Club World Cup brought together many key issues in modern football 📃 The tournament was funded with oil backed TV money, propped up by polluting sponsorship and dropped into the calendar against player's wishes 🤔

We spotted League 1 side Wrexham taking ultra short haul private jet flights... ✈️ ...just as their celebrity owners spoke about sustainability at the UN! 😬

It’s time to look back on the highs and lows of 2025! ⏪ Our highlight was seeing footballers stand up for the climate by demanding an end to oil sponsorship! 💪 We hope there's much more positive player advocacy to come ✊

“AFCON shouldn’t let itself be used for the promotion of dirty fossil fuels and adopt a sustainable sponsorship policy.”

Heel normaal land.

Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

Greens/EFA Co-President @baseickhout.bsky.social on the @ec.europa.eu plan to abandon the phase out combustion engines: "We're not helping the car industry by creating more uncertainty. Their desperate attempt to undermine the future of e-cars is a huge mistake." ➡️ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...

my last story for @atmosmag.bsky.social was a fun one: what if the power of sports was used to propel climate action? I spoke to former NFL, MLS, and rugby players; organizers and researchers; and went to a soccer game for a team whose mission is climate justice 🌏 more: atmos.earth/climate-solu...

Tbh it is utterly dissapointing. Electric transport is the low-hanging fruit in cutting down our co2 emmissions. If we do not even keep ourselves to the easy solutions, what to expect of the remaining challenges?🤔

Hard to see positive points in this lobby-wish list turned into legislative proposal. Weakening of the 2035 and all intermediate targets, not even ambitious targets for corporate fleets. Clear signal that this this Commission isn’t here for the future, it’s to defend the status quo.

🎊 WIN! Ook pensioenfonds PME breekt met vervuilende vermogensbeheerder BlackRock – dankzij de druk van onze beweging. ✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl

Ook pensioenfonds PME haalt miljarden weg bij vermogensbeheerder BlackRock

And Houston 2026 has a new sponsor - Aramco. How the Saudi state oil company is helping the Texan city close its World Cup funding gap. Story for Idrettspolitikk. idrettspolitikk.no/2025/12/12/v...

POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.

World Cup of Greed Front page of today's Daily Mirror. Story with Andy Lines. 👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“Yes, we need sun and windpower to take a bite out of the climate crisis. But we also need it to take a bite out of the authoritarianism crisis.” @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/pirates-of...

NEWS: Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪 Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔 'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd... 1/2

🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

While Fossil Free Football realises that Mr Infantino is preoccupied with his own prize-giving ceremony, it is sure that his Qatari private jet will be on hand to collect the Football Climate Impact Prize he so richly deserves! 👨‍✈️ Congratulations, Mr President! 👑

Infantino has handed it the 2034 World Cup, platformed its pro-oil advertising and routinely stood in support of its leaders and their Trump administration allies 🤝

His impact is typified by his championing of Saudi Arabia. Internationally isolated after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, its FIFA facilitated football takeover has helped it rebuild soft power and re-normalise its 'brand' 💪 It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌

The FIFA President once held up a “green card for the planet” and promised to halve its emissions by 2030 🌍 But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️

Infantino is also overseeing the most polluting World Cup in history 😬 It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈

His crowning achievement is the sale of the world’s biggest platform, the FIFA World Cup, to the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi state oil company Aramco 😳 Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺

FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize"​ 🏆 As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵

Fossiele subsidies kosten miljarden, verergeren de klimaatcrisis en staan in de weg van een gezonde toekomst. ✍️ Teken jij de petitie voor een stop op fossiele subsidies? www.brandbriefaanhetkabinet.nl

It's the @politico.eu 'sustainable future summit' today and tomorrow Our agriculture expert was on the panel, but then we found out that Spanish fossil fuel company @naturgy.bsky.social was sponsoring it, and giving a keynote speech each day We're boycotting #POLITICOSustainableSummit, here's why:

Noodweer. Het nieuwe understatement. 800 and counting www.nu.nl/buitenland/6...

Klimaatrechtvaardigheid betekent: ervoor zorgen dat de superrijken die vliegen in privéjets betalen voor hun vervuiling. Dat gaan we nu fixen. Het voorstel van collega @lucstultiens.bsky.social om privévluchten eerlijker te belasten is aangenomen! www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuel foreign policy: buy football soft power, block the climate action needed to protect football fans and players from the biggest threat humanity faces.

If you wanna do super unpopular things, such as blocking climate action, you better buy some soft power. This is a big part of the story of Saudi’s role in football.

$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 1/7 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

*BREKEND* Opnieuw nieuws waarmee alle kranten zouden moeten openen De president van Iran zegt dat hun hoofdstad niet meer levensvatbaar is, dat Teheran verplaatst moet worden, door eindeloze droogte, toenemende warmte, ecologisch wanbeheer 1/

Ultimatum aan ING: over een jaar stappen we over. Tenzij ING eindelijk stopt met ons spaargeld steken in: ❌ Bedrijven die nieuwe olie- en gasvelden starten ❌ Bedrijven die mensenrechten schenden Steun je deze eisen? Doe dan mee: bit.ly/Niet-Met-Mij... ✍️ #NietMetMijnGeld

This! 👇 It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!

Met kinderlijk enthousiasme tikt Rob Koster voor de zoveelste keer een promopraatje van het grootbedrijf op. Met journalistiek heeft het weinig te maken.

Always worth a read! @billmckibben.bsky.social

🔴 Players and fans are genuinely concerned about dangerous heat at the World Cup 👇 🔴 The world's biggest oil company will have its branding all over this tournament 😳 🔴Perhaps FIFA should take extreme weather seriously instead of embracing the polluters making it worse? 🌡️