V of cups12/2/2023 ![]() That would give World Rugby "full responsibilities for delivering how that tournament is managed and run and that gives us again the ability to take a different approach to the responsibilities around sustainability". However, Gilpin confirmed that the deal was agreed by the 2023 local organising committee in France and not the sport's governing body World Rugby, before adding that there would be "a slightly different model for hosting" after this World Cup. World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin said: "We recognise there is a challenging debate around them as a sponsor and as a fossil fuel company." Pocock (centre) played his 78th and final match for Australia in the quarter-final defeat by England at the 2019 World Cup in Japan ![]() He was speaking exclusively to BBC Sport for a Radio 5 Live special ' Rugby Tackles the Climate Challenge ' on Thursday.įormer flanker Pocock describes the climate crisis as "probably the biggest problem we face as a species" and after the European summer we have just experienced as a "critical moment in history". Pocock, who captained Australia at the 2019 World Cup, is now an independent senator in the Australian Capital Territory and a passionate campaigner on climate change issues. It added that by the end of 2023 the company "will invest nearly five billion euros in renewable and low carbon energies by 2023 and will therefore, for the first time, devote more investments to low-carbon energies than to new hydrocarbon projects". In response, a statement from TotalEnergies said it was "wrong" to claim its sponsorship was "greenwashing". Pocock told the BBC he believed the message should be "you can't sponsor us unless you have a legitimate decarbonisation plan, and you are transitioning your business".
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