Southampton Football Club has launched its Home Grown Initiative, combining the Club’s commitment to environmental sustainability with its strategy of developing world class talent on the pitch.
For every Academy player that makes their First Team debut, the Club will plant 250 trees, with a commitment to offsetting over 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over the next four years.
The Initiative is part of Southampton’s newly launched sustainability strategy, The Halo Effect, coming under the Club’s environmental responsibilities. The Club is also working with University of Southampton to measure its total carbon footprint so that it can accurately offset what is necessary.
The University is carrying out a research project, due to be completed by April 2021, to calculate the Club’s carbon footprint over a three-year period which will allow the Club to understand the full scope of its emissions, in order to plan and measure the changes that are needed to become carbon neutral.
Professor Simon Kemp, who is leading the University’s work with the Club, said: “We’re excited to be working with Southampton Football Club, which is clearly committed to reducing the sustainability impact of its activities, both on and off the pitch.
“The Club’s dedication to reducing its carbon footprint is very much aligned to the University of Southampton’s own Sustainability Strategy, and this project fulfils a key role for our Environmental Management students who are developing their own expertise in both science and business to contribute to Southampton’s green and sustainable future.”
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