Glos to host Time to Declare climate Change talk this Wednesday
11 July 2022
Gloucestershire Cricket will host a lecture highlighting the threat of climate change on cricket this Wednesday at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol.
The aptly-named ‘Time to Declare’ talk will take place at 7pm in the Bristol Pavilion at Gloucestershire’s home ground and will use the game of cricket as a lens to understand what the climate crisis means for our sport and what we can do as fans, clubs and governing bodies to mitigate it.
Russell Seymour, CEO of BASIS and former sustainability lead at Lords, will present his renowned Hit for Six report during the lecture. This will explore the important subject of climate change and the impact it is having on professional cricket. Tanya Aldred, Wisden journalist and cricket writer and commentator will also take part in the lecture.
The hour-long and free-to-enter talk has been organised in partnership between Gloucestershire and local cricket club, the Bristol Dodos, who are passionate campaigners on environmental matters and climate change.
In acting as host venue for the important talks on the effects of climate change, Gloucestershire Cricket will build on its existing sustainability goals and pledges that includes an ambition to become the most environmentally friendly cricket club in the world. The Club has already entered into the United Nations Race To Zero and is aiming to reach reach net zero emissions by 2040.
‘Time to Declare’ series organiser and Bristol Dodos team founder, Xeena Cooper, said: “Climate change can be a large disparate and unfathomable concept to most people, and just doesn’t make much sense in people’s everyday lives. But there is an urgency to realising solutions to act now.
“Cricket is the perfect parable for living in unprecedented times. A game rich in history, a game of noble spirit and fair play, also struggling with a dark past but mostly a game fighting for the next generation.”
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