Member

My Amendment 94 would direct the two major sporting organisations, UK Sport and Sport England, to report on how climate change will affect their sports and their venues and on what they will do to cope. That builds on a reporting power in the Climate Change Act, on which I have spoken many times before. It is important that sport is brought within that context because it has major participation and major impact. It is part of the nation’s heritage and culture, but, as others have said, we are speaking on allegedly the hottest June day ever in England. Things are changing. DCMS commissioned research and found that adverse weather already costs grass-roots sport about £320 million a year, rising by a further £95 million if we go up by a full 2 degrees of warming and by £190 million if we rise by 4 degrees centigrade.