World Rugby: an environmental strategy to halve carbon emissions by 2030

World Rugby has launched its "Environmental Sustainability Plan 2030", a comprehensive strategy to tackle environmental issues, which includes a 50% reduction in its carbon emissions by 2030 "without using offsetting," announced the body on 19/01/2022. This comprehensive environmental strategy was planned in World Rugby's 2021-25 strategy.

According to World Rugby, the "Environmental Sustainability Plan 2030 focuses on three priority themes: climate action, circular economy and natural environment protection. The strategy includes aspirational but achievable targets with a focus on four pillars of activity:
• Our governance: to embed sustainability in everything that we do.
• Our direct impacts: to reduce the environmental footprint of our own activities.
• Our events: to deliver and support sustainable rugby tournaments.
• Our global family: to promote sustainability in rugby through education, advocacy and knowledge sharing."

"In addition to cutting carbon emissions by 50%, World Rugby will work towards a further fifteen targets as set out in the plan (see details below). Included…