Can Sports Drive a Greener Economy? China Study Finds a Promising Link

Sports may be more than a source of entertainment, exercise and major events; they could also become a useful link between stronger regional economies and greener development when investment is backed by careful environmental planning. A new study titled ‘Can sports bridge economic growth and environmental sustainability? Evidence from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region’, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, examines this relationship across Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in China from 2012 to 2020. Researchers Song Yang, Shangrong Chen, Dongye Lyu and Cheng Zhang studied how three systems, sports industry development, ecological environmental protection and high-quality economic development, changed together, rather than…