Football connects billions of people, from local pitches to the #WorldCup

Football connects billions of people, from local pitches to the World Cup.

But climate change is reshaping the conditions the game is played in.

We are in the red zone. Yet football shows what’s possible when people come together.

The shift to clean energy and stronger resilience is already underway, but we need to move faster.

What’s at stake goes far beyond the pitch. It’s the people and communities that make the game possible.

The future of football depends on the choices we make now.

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The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

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