PSG is committed to ecology with the United Nations

What relationship between the PSG and the UN?

The fight for the preservation of the environment.

The Parisian club commits this Monday "with the UN for ecology

by joining the "Sports for Climate Action" program launched in 2015 by the United Nations.

PSG is the first French club to sign this charter.

But he is not the first major European club to join the program.

Arsenal and Juve have done it before him.

In a press release published on Monday, President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi affirmed: “With the club's membership in the

of the UN, we are opening a new chapter in our commitment to the planet.

With everyone's collaboration and the contribution of experts, we want to better structure the ecological actions that we have implemented in recent years, to make them more effective in meeting the challenge of climate change.

There is still a lot to do, but we are on the right track.

Paris Saint-Germain takes its responsibilities and will bring together its more than 100 million fans around the world to act together for a sustainable future.

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The first French football club to join the “Sports for Climate Action” program of @ CCNUCC, the United Nations agency responsible for climate and the environment, @PSG_inside makes a historic commitment to the climate.

- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) March 29, 2021

The UN for its part sees in this association the possibility of mobilizing the millions of PSG fans around the world in the fight for global warming: “What makes the beauty of this initiative is that all sports participate in the same championship, namely the Climate Action Championship.

Not all signatories start from the same start line, but we all have the same finish line.

We are delighted to see Paris Saint-Germain joining the

initiative

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The club is committed to reducing its environmental footprint in accordance with the objectives of the scientific world, and to mobilize athletes, fans and its community in this adventure.

We hope that the rest of French football will follow, ”confesses Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu, head of the“ Sports for Climate Action ”program.

By signing this charter, PSG undertakes to respect five principles: 1. the promotion of more responsible environmental practices;

2. reduction of the global climate impact;

3. education on climate issues;

4. the defense of sustainable consumption patterns, 5. communication in favor of climate action.

In the same press release, the club said it wanted to stop the use of disposable plastic in all its infrastructures by the end of the season and "deploy a waste sorting policy on all of its nine sites" specifying that nearly 6 t of recycled waste have already been collected at the head office in Boulogne-Billancourt since May 2020.

All is not, however, perfect.

At the start of the year, PSG were criticized for traveling by plane to Lens to compete for the Champions Trophy against OM (2-1).

Average in terms of carbon impact for less than an hour of travel: "Paris-Lens by plane, the PSG is a big hit in the climate

, had blasted Greenpeace France on its Twitter account.