Sustainable Markets Initiative, Commonwealth Sport and Royal Commonwealth Society at the Commonwealth Sustainable Events Breakfast Roundtable This morning, at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, the Royal Commonwealth Society joined forces with the Sustainable Markets Initiative and Commonwealth Sport to launch a new alliance aimed at making sporting events across the Commonwealth more sustainable. The alliance was announced at the Commonwealth Sustainable Events Breakfast R

One million pieces of plastic removed from Commonwealth waters. Read the story behind the milestone and the people who made it happen.

The Commonwealth Clean Oceans Plastics Campaign has removed one million pieces of plastic from Commonwealth waterways, reaching its target in Glasgow ahead of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. Discover the two-year journey, from Samoa to Glasgow, and the volunteers and partners who made it possible.

By Itoro Victor-Akpan, Associate Fellow, Royal Commonwealth Society Sport and climate change are deeply interlinked, yet this relationship remains far less spoken about than other defining issues in climate negotiations and discussions; from loss and damage financing, fossil fuel phase-out, and nature-based solutions to climate finance, food systems, and the just transition. And yet sport, with its extraordinary global reach, its vulnerability to extreme weather, and its powe