Mikaela Shiffrin leads push for winter sports sustainability amid climate crisis
by Agence France-Presse from US news | The Guardian on (#68SWF)
- American skier wants to make her sport climate neutral
- Letter signed by Shiffrin and scores of others sent to FIS
US star Mikaela Shiffrin has led calls for ski chiefs to change their approach to sustainability in a bid to make winter sports justifiable to a public ever more aware of climate change.
Entitled Our sport is endangered", a letter to International Ski Federation (FIS) president Johan Eliasch signed by Shiffrin and scores of others claimed the body's current sustainability efforts were insufficient".
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