The Role of Sport in the Realization of the UN 2030 SDGs: A Review of World Sailing Sustainability Education Programme

Abstract

World Sailing’s Sustainability Agenda 2030 outlines how the sport will contribute to the SDGs. The Agenda is split up into World Sailing’s six main operational areas with a total of 56 different targets. They are committed to youth education, reduce plastic use, equipment recycling, and marine protection through educational projects, public welfare activities, international forums. A single case study methodology was used in this study to provide an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon. In this study we found that the World Sailing and World Sailing Trust play an exemplary and leading role in the field of sustainable development. The Sustainability Education Program materials will ensure the next generation of sailors learn about wider environmental issues that can affect the sport as well as those areas where the sport can make a positive impact. However, it is obvious that the appeal and action of international sport federation is limited, and it is difficult to form a wider group of participants. More is to arouse people’s awareness of protecting the earth through sailing sport.