Club becomes first in the Premier League to join UN-backed Sports for Nature Framework
Fri 28 February 2025, 10:00|
Tottenham Hotspur
We have cemented our reputation as the Premier League’s greenest club by becoming the first to join the UN-backed Sports for Nature Framework.
The Framework aims to deliver transformative nature-positive action across sports by 2030 and beyond, enabling sports to champion nature and contribute to its protection and restoration.
By joining the Framework, we have committed to:
- Protecting nature and avoiding damage to natural habitats and species
- Restoring and regenerating nature wherever possible
- Understanding and reducing risks to nature in our supply chains
- Educating and inspiring positive action for nature across and beyond sport
The Club is already actively promoting biodiversity and nature across its sites, planting hundreds of new and semi-mature trees and establishing a wildflower meadow, two wildlife ponds, over 540 bat houses and 25 bug hotels at our Training Centre in Enfield.
Spurs joins the Sports for Nature Framework
• Signatories of the Framework commit to protecting and regenerating nature
• The commitment builds on the Club’s efforts to promote biodiversity and nature across its sites, including first of its kind pollination and bird activity monitoring systems
• Club has been a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework since 2021, committing to net zero by 2040
• We are recognised as the Premier League’s greenest club having consistently topped the Sport Positive EPL league table
We have implemented two award-winning Biodiversity Monitoring systems – a first in sport - which monitor pollination and bird activity, allowing the Club to collect crucial data to provide insight into current biodiversity levels. This won the Biodiversity Project of the Year award at the BASIS Sustainable Sport Awards 2024 for the collaboration.
We have also become established as the Club for animal-lovers, setting up the first-ever Official Supporters’ Club for dog-owners and working alongside All Dogs Matter to find forever homes for those that have been sadly abandoned.
Donna-Maria Cullen, Executive Director at Tottenham Hotspur, said: “We have long been recognised as the Premier League’s greenest club for the work we have done to minimise carbon emissions across our operations – it is now time for us to make a firm commitment to nature and protecting the ecosystems we cannot live without.
“Becoming the first signatory in the Premier League of the Sports for Nature Framework means we can now demonstrate clear action across all three pillars of the UN’s definition of sustainability set out at COP29 – People, Climate and Nature.
“The work does not stop here and we look forward to further implementing the four key commitments we have made through the Framework across everything we do.”
Nature-based Solutions – focused on conservation, restoration and management of ecosystems – can provide up to 30% of the carbon uptake and storage required to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2030, which was the target set by the Paris Agreement in 2016.
In 2021, we joined the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to net zero by 2040 and to halving our carbon emissions by 2030.
