Football’s Carbon Footprint: Burning Up the Planet

The project investigates how football clubs travel the world in pre-season to play pointless friendly matches, while players and officials rely on private jets instead of scheduled flights at the cost of the environment.

Burning Up The planet: Football’s Carbon Footprint exposes the sham of some carbon credit schemes and the promises made in the quest for a Net Zero world that will not be fulfilled.

The project also exposes how football is increasingly reliant on major fossil fuel producers for both sponsorship and to host major tournaments, which increase in their number and scope to send players and fans further afield than ever before while failing to properly acknowledge or explain the carbon footprint that these events are creating.

Illustration by Andy Brown