Sustainability

Aftermath of the WFC 2022 Green Goal initiative

10th October 2023 - News , Sustainability

Soon it will be 12 months since the World Floorball Championships 2022 took place in Switzerland. In addition to being a very successful event in terms of spectator numbers and sports presentation, it was also historic by aiming to be as climate...

UN Sports For Climate Action network launches global sport fan survey

19th September 2023 - News , Sustainability

On 12th of September, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as part of the UN Sports For Climate Action work, launched a global sport fan survey #BiggerThanTheGame. We are inviting all floorball federations and clubs to sports...

Towards more sustainable operations - the Finnish Floorball Federation is working on reducing its carbon footprint

3rd August 2023 - Finland Floorball News , Sustainability

CarbonLink's real-time calculation visualises the emissions of league activities and encourages the reduction of match travel. The Finnish Floorball Federation and CarbonLink, which specializes in real-time measurement of carbon footprints, have...

IFF joins the Sports for Nature framework

29th May 2023 - News , Sustainability

While there is an urgent need to act across all parts of society, sports have an unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) has been working with key partners on...

New Fair Floorball Player Award introduced for the U19 WFC 2023

14th April 2023 - News , Sustainability , Men's U19 WFC 2023

Traditionally in the U19 championships the IFF, LOC and media representatives select the All-Star team. Additionally the LOC has presented each team with a prize for the Best Player after the last game of each team in the event. For the upcoming...

IOC publishes new sustainability case studies

5th April 2023 - News , Sustainability

After a hiatus of two years the IOC has once again published a number of sustainability case studies. The papers are to highlight the valuable work that is being done in many organisations and encouraged by the IOC.   The documents aim to...

WFC 2022 Green Goal initiative recognized by Sponsoring Switzerland

16th March 2023 - News , Switzerland Floorball News , Men's WFC 2022 , Sustainability , Partnerships and Sponsors

It was a big night for the Swiss Floorball Association when the Green Goal initiative of the Men's World Floorball Championships (WFC) 2022 won a special prize from Sponsoring Switzerland. Apart from organising a top-level sports event the World...

Climate change mitigation research unites sports federations

28th November 2022 - News , IFF News , Sustainability

The International Floorball Federation is among three sports (biathlon, athletics, floorball) that participate in an project aiming to explore how their respective sports can adopt more practices to mitigate their impact on climate change. As...

FINCIS Fair Play athletes at the WFC 2020

11th April 2022 - News , Men's WFC 2020 , Anti-Doping , Sustainability

FINCIS (Finnish Center for Integrity in Sports) participated actively in the World Floorball Championship 2020 in Helsinki. As part of the challenge campaign, FINCIS shared information on clean sports practices at its own information stand for both...

UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

6th April 2022 - News , World Floorball Championships , Sustainability , Men's WFC 2002

Due to its vast reach, unparalleled popularity and foundation of positive values, sport is ideally positioned to contribute towards the United Nations’ objectives for development and peace. To raise awareness of this potential, 6 April was...