Environment and sustainability

Environmental policies:

Uisp promotes a culture of sport aimed at safeguarding the balance with the environment that surrounds us and of which we are a part. Sustainable development and environmental protection are factors that we can no longer ignore, in any area of ​​social action, much less in sport, which with its remarkable facets and its multiple transversality represents a fundamental and in many ways daily dimension of society.

The Agenda 2030 of United Nations has clearly defined the emergencies and begun to design possible solutions.

In this context, social sport, with its different experiences and sensibilities, can contribute to the process of rebuilding collective social action, in a more supportive and sustainable perspective. To do this, it is necessary to: decarbonize sport; safeguard the ecosystem by developing knowledge and protection of biodiversity; redevelop existing sports facilities to make them more sustainable; transform cities with a territorial recovery plan; promote sustainable and shared mobility; implement relationships with the third sector and social partners to build a truly bottom-up change that also and above all takes into account the needs of future generations.

Sustainable and responsible tourism

Sport and tourism, an increasingly successful combination, capable of crossing new needs for sports practice and opportunities for leisure, knowledge of the environment, culture. Uisp links tourism to the principles of sustainability, ethics and responsibility.

Analyzing the impact of tourism on the population, the main expressions of reference are "encounter tourism", "ethical tourism" and "social tourism", which all lead back to respect and protection of local cultures. This means first of all making tourism choices that are shared by the native populations and also aiming for an active involvement of the local people both in terms of management of tourist facilities and from the point of view of redistribution of profits generated by tourism activity.

"Responsible tourism" means protecting both environmental resources and local traditions.

These are the principles that guide Uisp choices in this field: environmental sustainability, that is, respect for the territory in the organization of sports events, for its use also by future generations;  enhancement of the territory, especially of the little-known areas of interest; enhancement of the culture and traditions of tourist areas; accessibility:  involvement of structures that offer comfort of use for all ages and disabled people; promotion of activities and structures that meet the economic needs of less well-off members.