Eliud Kipchoge, a Kenyan professional long-distance runner and the greatest marathon runner of all time, is among the 50 Olympians who called for climate action during the COP26 conference in Glasgow Image by MichaelGubi is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 In August 2021, Athletics Kenya became the first national athletics body to join World Athletics as a signatory of the United Nations Climate Change (UNCC) Sports for Climate Action Framework — a collaborative initiative by the UN aimed at reducing carbon emissions associated with the sports industry. This came two months before the 2021 United N…