But before we go into everything that is happening, yes, it is a sizable chunk of global emissions as you have spoken, 16 percent, actually in Costa Rica, also 30 percent. Right now the technologies are available to place clean road transportation at a tipping point – this episode of Outrage + Optimism in the Race to Zero argues we can and must make it happen faster.Ĭhristiana Figueres: Well, yes. In light of a recent Harvard University study showing that 8.7 million people die each year from air pollution caused by burning dirty fossil fuels, this transformation is urgent and vital to human health, alongside climate goals. To meet climate goals, all countries need to rapidly transform road transportation. Transportation accounts for 16% of global carbon pollution and in many countries, is closer to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. Their mission? To demonstrate that high performing motor racing can engage people around the world in the clean transport revolution, with an aim of influencing government and private sector leaders to speed up the transition of the road transport industry. A lot of the vulnerable environments they are talking about have not mainly been damaged by the local people, but they have been damaged by our own lifestyle in the global north, a lifestyle that is using too many resources, leading to exhaustion of soils, climate change and the exploitation of natural resources.The second episode of the Race to Zero series features former F1 World Champion, Nico Rosberg, owner of Extreme E team, Rosberg Xtreme Racing, and Sara Price, who will race for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Extreme E rallies over the course of 2021. If RXR, Rosberg’s team wants to raise awareness, then they could fund awareness campaigns while racing on close circuits we already have. Vulnerable ecosystems do not need further disturbance by race cars, electric or not, but clean, restoration and ultimately being left alone by humans and no public authority should give permission of these races to happen. We can only hope that Extreme E is quickly vanishing in its present concept. How different would it have been if a former formula 1 champion had turned to developing sustainable fuels or if he is interested in e-mobility – creating new urban mobility concepts and – if he still wants competition on 4 wheels – a delivery challenge for electric postal delivery vehicles. On the list of racing locations are glaciers, coastal waters, the amazon. And to make this message even stronger they turn to vulnerable eco systems. They claim racing – and in this case even off-road racing is good for the environment. Rosberg and the Extreme E series change that. But at least they did not pretend that race cars are a positive contribution to the environment – except for the occasional claim that some race cars run on alcohol and therefore are CO2 neutral. That has been a clever marketing trick to justify spending millions on something with questionable value. What can you do if driving race cars is what you are best in? These miracles of technology that have little to no purpose other than being fast on some kind of circuit and where car producers keep pretending, they are advancing the cars we can buy. Turning to the website of the racing team, one encounters about any do good idea for local communities one can imagine: supporting local projects and NGOs, working with high level stakeholders to improve environmental conditions, educating, creating awareness – and rendering Rosberg himself as visionary entrepreneur that is pushing the global sustainability agenda. This is where I stopped liking all the ‘we save the planet’ wording. They want to do that by “competing in particularly vulnerable environments around the world”. It is the declared mission of the series to raise awareness for the bad state of the environment due to climate change. With his team he will participate in the Extreme E series, a kind of rally series but then with electric vehicles. There for former formula 1 world champion announced the starting of Rosberg Xtreme Racing. Yesterday I stumbled across a post of Nico Rosberg on Linkedin.
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