PUBLISHING MAY 7th 2024 (USA/Canada), and MAY 9th 2024 (UK)
WARMING UP
How Climate Change is Changing Sport
The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change.
In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the blistering sun. Professional athletes needed oxygen tanks to play during wildfire season in California. Players collapsed and play was suspended amid the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis open. Ski resorts in the Alps have turned into ghost towns. Golf courses are sinking into the sea. And then there's the Qatar World Cup, among the greatest follies in sporting history, one that saw hundreds (perhaps thousands) of heat-induced deaths before a ball was even kicked.
The threat climate change poses to sport is clear, but with billions of participants and fans around the world who rely on the sector for entertainment, jobs, fitness and health, this is one industry we can't afford to lose. In this book, Madeleine Orr shows it doesn't have to be this way. There are ways to mitigate, and perhaps counter, even the worst elements of climate change.
A world-leading sport ecologist, Madeleine interviews athletes, coaches, politicians and thought-leaders to learn more about the inevitable consequences for this trillion-dollar industry. From the frontlines of climate change, Warming Up takes readers through a play-by-play of how global warming is already impacting sport, and how the sports world can fight back.
Spring 2024 Tour
May 6 - New York City
Stern School of Business - New York University, 6-8pm
Open to the public.
conversation with Tiffany Lau, Associate Vice President, Venues - National Basketball Association (NBA); Lew Blaustein, Founder of EcoAthletes and GreenSportsBlog
May 9 - Toronto
University of Toronto - Goldring Centre, 6-8pm
Open to the public.
in conversation with Shireen Ahmed, Senior Reporter at CBC Sports and Journalism Prof at Toronto Metropolitan University; Marco di Buono, President of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities; and Alicia Brown, 2x Olympian in track
May 13 - London
Lord’s Cricket Ground, 7-8:30pm
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In conversation with Dave Lockwood, Head of Editorial Sustainability at BBC Sport
May 14 - Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh, 5-6:30pm
Open to the public.
More info / link will be available soon.
May 29 - Hay-on-Wye, Wales
Hay Festival, 11:30am
in conversation with Claire Taylor, a World Cup-winning English cricketer, Chair of Cricket at the MCC and a management consultant
June 12-13 - Los Angeles
Green Sports Alliance Summit
Peacock Theatre, time TBD
June 20 - Montreal
Librairie Saint Henri Books, 7-8:30pm
More info / link will be available soon