Sponsorship from fossil-fuel companies is worth millions to Australian sport. But growing opposition from the public and athletes themselves may force sports to rethink these deals.
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Roundtable discussions with leaders from major energy companies reveal a lack of pressure from regulators or investors and a strong belief that fossil fuel use will continue for years to come.
The world’s largest energy companies are used to doing business in risky places with difficult partners. But with war in Ukraine, preserving their reputations outweighs profits.
By hiving off its oil and gas assets into a separate company, BHP is acknowledging it has no future in the carbon emissions business.
The COVID-19 crisis has raised major questions about the viability of the economic, business and employment models that corporate and industry lobbyists are arguing for a return to.
The fact that so many Canadian pension funds are tied to oil and gas companies is a deeply structural form of racialized oppression and a denial of Indigenous rights.
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Co-director, Sport Innovation Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Adjunct professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director, Center for Sport Management and Education and the Laboratory for Sustainability in Sport, Texas A&M University
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Interim Director, Penn State Sustainability Institute, Penn State
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Professor and Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Chair of Strategic Management, Rice University
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PhD Candidate, Sport Innovation Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology
