2Playbook: Real Betis, the first LaLiga club to register for its environmental management in the EMAS register.
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The Verdiblanco club has registered with this European Union system, which allows the club to evaluate, manage, and improve its performance in this area. It is the second European football club to join, after FC Porto.
Real Betis remains true to its motto, Forever Green . The LaLiga EA Sports club has become the first in Spanish football to register with the European Union’s EMAS system. A milestone that confirms the Betis’ commitment to the environment.
Specifically, the EMAS system confirms that Betis has an environmental management and audit system, which allows it to evaluate, manage, and improve its sustainability performance, in addition to publicly communicating the results through an environmental declaration, as detailed by the club in a statement .
Betis is the second European club to join, after FC Porto, demonstrating its commitment to environmental management. The Andalusian club previously obtained ISO 14001 certification, an internationally recognized standard that establishes a framework for organizations to develop an externally verified environmental management system. “EMAS represents a further step towards environmental excellence by requiring the preparation of an environmental declaration, a public report that transparently details the entity’s environmental sustainability policy, objectives, and results,” the club added.
In this context, the certificate means that “an independent entity recognizes our environmental management, in accordance with the standards of sustainability, one of the club’s fundamental pillars,” emphasized Real Betis Balompié’s director of operations, Enrique Castillo .
For his part, Fausto Scaldaferri , head of the Green-and-White club’s Environmental Management System, highlighted the main challenges for achieving this designation as “the integration of environmental issues and the involvement of suppliers in a sector, football, where sustainability is still something new and little known.”
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