The England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed on Monday that it is joining the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, becoming the first national cricketing governing body to sign up.
The ECB joins the county clubs Gloucestershire and Surrey, the MCC, Melbourne Cricket Club and the International League T20 team Desert Vipers – as well as more than 200 other sporting and broadcasting organisations from the World Flying Disk Federation to the Lawn Tennis Association. Signatories sign up to five principles, encouraging them to embed environmental thinking into their decision making, and includes key targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 and of reaching net zero by 2040.
