Formula E will begin its tenth season by attending the United Nations’ COP28 Climate Change Conference in Dubai from November 30 until December 12 in a bid to persuade other sports to follow its lead on sustainability.
The open-wheel series was the first in motorsport to embrace all-electric drivetrains in 2014, and became a fully-fledged FIA world champi onship by its seventh season. In 2020 it became the first sport of any kind in the world to have its emissions reductions targets validated by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi), and is on course to achieve that target (a 45 percent overall reduction) by 2030.
Now, a delegation representing the series, its team, and partners will attend the UN summit to call on other elite sport leaders to “give it everyth ing” in their sustainability efforts.
“Elite sport reaches a global audience of billions every week,” said Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds. “Athletes are among the most-followed and influential people on the planet. Collectively, we have the potential to make positive changes for a more sustainable future and encourage fans to do the same. To use popular football manager parlance, we need to ‘give it everything’.”