{"id":60058368,"date":"2024-10-31T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/?p=60058368"},"modified":"2024-10-31T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:17:43","slug":"how-climate-change-is-impacting-sports-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/how-climate-change-is-impacting-sports-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate change is impacting sports in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Africa is the continent most vulnerable<\/a> to the impacts of climate change, despite only contributing about 3%<\/a> of global cumulative CO2 emissions. These impacts extend in many directions, including along the continent\u2019s running tracks and across its football pitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have even led to calls for a full reorganisation of the sporting calendar to factor in the health and performance impacts athletes are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How exactly is sport in Africa being affected? How much worse could it get? And what steps are being taken to improve the situation? Dialogue Earth spoke to athletes, administrators and sports journalists from across the continent to find answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pan-African impacts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alphonce Felix Simbu is a Tanzanian marathon runner who competed in the Paris Olympics. He hails from Arusha, a city nestled in East Africa\u2019s Great Rift Valley that was once renowned for its cool breezes and temperate climate. Now, this north-eastern region of Tanzania is experiencing more extreme<\/a> temperatures. Simbu tells Dialogue Earth: \u201cTen years ago the weather used to be very cool, but now it is difficult to train during the day because of the heat. I now train in the evenings, but this means training sessions are short.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Nigeria, the men\u2019s national football team is doing the same. \u201cThe team has resorted to training during the evening when temperatures have gone down,\u201d says the team\u2019s former media manager, Babafemi Raji. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is affecting all kinds of sports across the continent. Wendy Gila, president of Roller Sport South Africa, says roller sports are now being impacted by \u201cextreme heat, extreme cold and erratic flash floods\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gila mentors Keamogetswe Masango, who competed in the artistic roller skating competition at this year\u2019s World Skate Games in Italy.\u00a0 She is from northern\u00a0Gauteng, a South African province that has been experiencing frequent erratic foods<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t skate on a wet surface, so when it rains excessively it means no game,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Ignatious Gideon is the national director of Special Olympics South Sudan, which provides sports training and competitions for people with intellectual disabilities. South Sudan has faced both devastating droughts and catastrophic flooding in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAthletes face the challenge of high temperatures, which have in the past led to the closure of public training facilities,\u201d he says. For example, during a blistering heatwave in March this year, South Sudan\u2019s schools were closed<\/a> to protect children. As a result, some athletes were unable to train at their usual facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gideon adds that most of the country\u2019s top athletes have \u201crelocated to other African countries or abroad, for better environmental conditions and infrastructure to nurture their talents\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Majok Matet is a South Sudanese middle-distance runner and Olympian based in Japan. \u201cThere are neither paved platforms nor maintained grass on pitches in South Sudan, making it hard for athletes to train in the dusty grounds,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen it floods, the tracks become muddy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zimbabwe, meanwhile, is currently battling an El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought that has worsened an economic crisis. Joel Luphahla, a coach for Harare\u2019s Dynamos Football Club, says even when it does rain, \u201cthere is no drainage system \u2026 all matches have to stop because the pitches will flood.\u201d None of the Southern African country\u2019s football stadiums are approved by the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) or the Confederation of African Football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Wesaala is founder and CEO of the Football Foundation for Africa, based in Uganda. He says most football pitches at \u201cboth grassroots and elite levels in Africa are not climate-change friendly, making it difficult for games to be played in extremely hot or extremely wet conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Efforts to adapt and the need to improve facilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some measures are being taken to help athletes. During the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil, Fifa introduced three-minute breaks to allow players to cool down and rehydrate. Similar breaks were used<\/a> during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. The tournament had initially been scheduled for June and July, but was pushed to January and February 2024 due to<\/a> floods and extreme heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Afcon 2021, African football teams have been permitted to make five substitutions per match instead of three. The change<\/a> was made to lessen the impact of player absentees caused by Covid-19, but it has had other benefits. In Zimbabwe, \u201cit has helped rest the players in this continually warming environment,\u201d says Luphahla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, talking about South Africa, Gila says \u201cindoor training facilities with shade are needed to lessen the impact of extreme weather on roller athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesaala agrees, saying that because the African sports industry is still developing, countries should consider building facilities that are climate resilient. \u201cPractices such as rainwater harvesting to make sure pitches are ecologically friendly are also ideal,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drought, nutrition and sporting outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Good nutrition is vital to athletes\u2019 development and performance, but climate change is impacting that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn South Sudan\u201d, says Matet, \u201cmost athletes are struggling to put a single meal on the table due to poverty exacerbated<\/a> by harsh climatic conditions.\u201d He adds that due to high unemployment, most athletes in his country \u201cdo not have side hustles to supplement their sports earnings\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tanzania, too, Simbu notes that \u201cdrought has affected the nutrition and diet of athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Injuries and fatalities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The impacts of climate change on sport can pose risks beyond athletic performance. At Afcon 2021 in Cameroon, a referee became confused due to heatstroke<\/a>, blowing the final whistle five minutes early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Onyeudo, director of sports medicine for the Nigerian Ministry of Youth and Sports, says: \u201cInjuries and fatalities linked to sport need to be investigated and recorded if intervention measures are to work.\u201d Governments need to make funds available for addressing issues of climate change in sports, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raising awareness and smart scheduling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Though many of the athletes, sports officials and journalists Dialogue Earth spoke to are aware of climate change\u2019s impact on sports, many are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAthletes and journalists need to be more aware and more knowledgeable on the subject if intervention measures are to be successful,\u201d says Charles Mabika, a Zimbabwean sports journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Uganda, Wesaala says Football Foundation for Africa \u201chas partnered with other organisations to hold workshops and programmes aimed at educating African athletes, journalists and other officials on the impact of climate change on sports\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesaala has also urged officials to \u201ctry and reorganise the sports calendar and work closely with weather specialists to make sure players play under the best conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next Afcon will be held in Morocco between December 2025 and January 2026; the 2027 tournament will be cohosted by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Wesaala wants the organisers to carefully consider timings to \u201cmitigate the effects of climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sport\u2019s green goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Leading sporting bodies have started making sweeping decarbonisation commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) co-launched the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework<\/a>. Its signatories aim to combat climate change through commitments and partnerships that will enable the measurement and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in sport. Athletics Kenya was the first<\/a> national athletics federation to become a signatory, and more than 280 sports organisations have committed to the framework. It currently requests<\/a> signatories to commit to halving emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, the IOC\u2019s president Thomas Bach officially opened the Olympic Forest<\/a> in Dakar, ahead of the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Senegal. The project symbolises the IOC\u2019s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement<\/a>: a reduction of 30% by 2024, and 45% by the end of this decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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