AGF WILL TRAVEL CLIMATE-RESPONSIBLY THROUGH PIONEERING AGREEMENT WITH DANCHURCHAID

Through a new agreement with global nonprofit aid organisation DanChurchAid, AGF will from 2022 compensate the club's emissions of CO2 from air travel and at the same time support the world's poorest with climate aid.

This winter, AGF travels to two training camps far away from Denmark. From now on, those flights will be climate-responsible, as we begin to compensate for the club's flights abroad. This is done in a new collaboration with DanChurchAid.

- We can reduce a large part of our CO2 emissions on our own. We already do this, for example, by using green power, recycling programs and such initiatives. But travel is a difficult area, because as a professional football team, we have to fly once in a while. So I am proud to launch this compensation program with DanChurchAid, which has the expertise to make a difference, says Anne Jensen, director of branding and sustainability at AGF.

Cooperation with Uganda

The program consists of a broad climate effort combining three pillars: Planting climate trees in Uganda that absorb CO2 and thus contribute to a reduced climate footprint. Climate adaptation, where small farmers in Uganda learn about new farming methods and crops that can withstand climate change. And finally, the agreement contributes to the help that DanChurchAid provides urgently when natural disasters strike.

- Africa is the area in the world that is hit the hardest by climate changes. There, they pay the highest price for the world's overconsumption of CO2, and we also have a responsibility for that in the western world. It means a lot to us to compensate via an established Danish program, which makes an actual difference for the populations that suffer the most from climate changes, explains Anne Jensen.

AGF first with CO2 compensation

At DanChurchAid, Secretary General Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen is enthusiastic about the new agreement with AGF.

- AGF is the first big sports club in Denmark to make a climate agreement; they are pioneers and first member of their own climate super league! We are very proud that AGF has chosen us as a partner. The club already has an ambitious sustainability strategy where they reduce their CO2 emissions, but we can help them compensate for something that they in the short term can’t reduce - while contributing to our climate aid work in Uganda.

- There is generally a great need for private companies and organisations to get involved in climate efforts. The task is enormous, and we can not carry it alone; we need partnerships across all sectors - so it is a great signal that AGF is now at the forefront of the sports world, says Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen.

The agreement on climate compensation between AGF and DanChurchAid will be published on the same day as AGF presents its annual Responsibility Report, which shows and documents AGF's efforts within sustainability and social responsibility in 2021.

Here you can read about how a switch to so-called green power has saved AGF 41 tonnes of CO2 in 23 home games in 2021 and about many other initiatives that point in the right direction.

From 2022, the new CO2 compensation will also appear in AGF's responsibility report, where AGF will document the results of the new climate cooperation with DanChurchAid.