Following Hurricane Maria’s challenges, PRSL secured 1000 acres of prime land in Dorado, Puerto Rico, to build a sports and entertainment complex that would become a community shelter in times of need following the natural disasters that Puerto Rico endures – hurricanes, earthquakes, and coastal erosion due to global warming.
Once the land was secured, PRSL retained world renowned architects and engineers specialized in sports venues and aligned with the goals of the United Nations’ Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C, recognizing that this would substantially reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
A Master Plan was developed, presented, and approved by the Mayor of Dorado and his legal and engineering support staff, and PRSL embarked on seeking financing for the Project. While focusing on that aspect of its Plan, Joey Serralta received a call from someone associated with the United Nations, an Ambassador, who wanted to know more about the PRSL Project.
"We are proud to be a signatory for Sports for cl".
We invited the UN Ambassador and representatives to Puerto Rico, showed them what Hurricane Maria had caused island wide, the coastal erosion issues at Ocean Park, where Club Deportivo Barbosa plays, the disrepair of the soccer field and stands at Academia Quintana, the destruction left behind where Vega Baja’s team used to play, the collapse of the Port at Ponce, and like that, we went around Puerto Rico, meeting with many Mayors, legislators and Governorship candidates. We discussed the challenges, brainstormed needs, and proposed solutions.
On October 16, 2019, PRSL received notification from the UNFCCC headquarters in Bonn, Germany, that PRSL was a Signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Soon thereafter, Joey Serralta joined the UN Working Groups on Sustainable Consumption, and Education and Advocacy, while Ibrahim Reyes joined the UN Working Groups on Systematic Efforts, and Reducing Impact. Through these four United Nations Working Groups, PRSL advocates and adopts best technologies and practices with its fellow Signatory organizations.
UNFCCC Participant List (Puerto Rico Soccer League is Signatory #84, the first football league in the world to join.)
"The affiliation of the PRSLSafeStadiums™ with the United Nations Sports for Climate Action initiative places Puerto Rico in the advantageous position of serving as proof of concept to the sports world of how to build resiliently and sustainably in an island that is regularly battered by hurricanes, earthquakes, global warming and coastal erosion."
PRSL is the first football League, ever, to have implemented the best technologies and practices available to sports stadiums and venues, making these sports facilities resilient and sustainable, lowering the carbon-footprint over 60% currently, and geared to become carbon neutral by 2030.
On March 9, 2020, the UN Climate Change Secretariat submitted PRSL an invitation to participate in the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards through its Momentum for Change initiative. These awards go to the world’s most innovative, scalable, and replicable examples of action to tackle climate change. Selected activities will be recognized and celebrated at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2020. PRSLSafeStadiums™ are being considered as one of these most innovative projects in the world, aimed at achieving real results in transitioning to climate neutrality through sports.
Puerto Rico’s geographical position in the world, in which hurricanes, earthquakes and coastal erosion converge, in conjunction with the island’s football prospects having become dimmer, presented a challenge that PRSL understood it would need to address. PRSL is pleased to report that its Plans and Projects, its membership in the UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action, and its alliance with strategic partners has yielded and will continue to yield positively extraordinary results to Puerto Rico’s football, its sports infrastructure, and the island as a whole.
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