Alongside its participation in Extreme E’s ‘Legacy Projects’ that intention to profit the native environments by which every spherical is held, Rosberg X Racing has arrange its personal marketing campaign.
Launched because the ‘Driven by Purpose’ programme, the crew planted over 100 timber on the pre-season testing venue at Motorland Aragon in Spain earlier than enrolling in a gender equality-grounded challenge for the maiden spherical in AlUla, Saudi Arabia.
In Senegal, the group partnered with Little Sun to donate 180 solar-powered studying lamps to colleges.
Rosberg X Racing, which has now been recognised at a internet carbon-zero outfit, has signed as much as the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework and can work with sporting organisations to help motion in opposition to the local weather disaster.
Recent Autosport visitor columnist Rosberg wrote: “I see motorsport and the broader mobility business as an ecosystem, the place each side of it could possibly assist drive optimistic change, from the sustainable options it develops to the function it could possibly play in educating individuals on the risk of local weather change and how one can deal with it.
“Innovating, racing and educating together is how we can make a difference.”
Derived from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Sports for Climate Action Framework works to advertise higher environmental duty through schooling and communication.
Rosberg X Racing joins Extreme E and over 240 different individuals presently signed as much as the Framework.
Rosberg added: “I’m proud to be leading a team which continues to place sustainability at the heart of everything it does and together with our partners we look forward to continuing to be a leading force for good in the fight against climate change and in championing diversity and equality.”
Former Mercedes F1 driver Rosberg can even be a visitor speaker on the United Nations Climate Change Conference that can happen in Glasgow in November.
The timing of this COP26 assembly is getting used to push for Extreme E to carry a spherical within the Outer Hebrides this season to fill in for the Brazil and Argentina spherical, which have been cancelled as a result of ongoing world well being disaster.
This context was additionally used as the premise for Prince William to drive the standardised Odyssey 21 E-SUV at Knockhill earlier this 12 months.
