#CombinedForChange Sustainability Tour: how organizers can learn from each other’s initiatives

• FIS to showcase initiatives by the eight Nordic Combined LOCs for the 2024/25 World Cup season, each covering a different area of sustainability work. 

• Project aims to foster knowledge exchange between organizers and to support them in devising an ever more sustainable blueprint for snow sports events. 

• The eight initiatives will be profiled in the #CombinedForChange series, culminating with the FIS Combined For Change Award, presented by Viessmann, at the end of the season. 

In the 2024/25 season, the efforts to make the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup as sustainable as possible are set to have more impact than ever.  

The Local Organizing Committees (LOCs) of the eight World Cup stages are joining the FIS #CombinedForChange Sustainability Tour, an opportunity for them to learn from each other’s initiatives and maximize their ability to organize ever more sustainable events. 

The eight LOCs will showcase one sustainability activity carried out at their events, with each covering a different area: from energy production and transport solutions to waste management and community work. Expertise and results will be shared among the organizers, leading to a collective pool of all-around knowledge about how to put together more sustainable events. 

“The challenges we face today, particularly those related to the environment, are common to every single one of us, and so can be the solutions,” says FIS Sustainability Director Susanna Sieff. “Event organizers have been very proactive to put in place truly impactful projects. Just imagine the positive difference that we can make by replicating them widely across snow sports.” 

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It is not only the LOCs that can benefit from learning more about how events can help make a change for the good, but also the whole winter sports community. Over the course of the FIS World Cup season, FIS and Viessmann, the title sponsor of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup, will join forces to present #CombinedForChange, a video series that will tell the human stories behind each of the eight initiatives and will be starred and narrated by the main characters of Nordic Combined: the athletes. 

At the end of the season, with all initiatives having been carried out and profiled, the FIS Combined For Change Award presented by Viessmann will crown the most impactful of them, based on a combination of public vote on social media, assessment by a panel of FIS and Viessmann experts, and vote by the LOCs themselves. The winning LOC will receive a EUR 10,000 voucher for an intelligent climate and energy solution from Viessmann. 

“With the support of the Combined For Change Sustainability Tour we want to follow our ambition to strengthen Nordic Combined in the area of sustainability with our partner FIS,” says Georg van der Vorst, Head of Sponsoring, Viessmann Climate Solutions.  

The inaugural stage of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup 2024/25 took place last weekend in Ruka, Finland, which showcased its snow farming project. Catch a glimpse of it:

Check out the full Nordic Combined schedule here.