Article 6QT7B Fossil fuel companies sponsor $5.6bn in global ‘sportswashing’ deals

Fossil fuel companies sponsor $5.6bn in global ‘sportswashing’ deals

by
Damien Gayle Environment correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#6QT7B)

Thinktank says funding from oil and gas firms is attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis'

Fossil fuel companies pumped at least $5.6bn (4.2bn) of sponsorship money into motorsports, football, golf and even snow sports in an effort to buy social licence to operate", according to a new report.

Almost no major spectator sport remains untouched by oil and gas money, according to research carried out by the New Weather Institute (NWI), a climate thinktank, which traced more than 200 sponsorship deals between sports teams and the industry.

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