The climate is changing. It is difficult to be unaware of the heat waves, wildfires, glacier and Arctic / Antarctic thawing and flooding emergencies currently affecting many nations as a consequence. Scientists agree that, even if the effect is a natural climate cycle, increased CO2 in the atmosphere is exacerbating the effect, and that only humans can do something about it.
More than 70 nations have pledged to achieve net zero CO2 emissions and so hopefully limit global temperature rise to under 1.5degC in 2050. To be successful requires immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030, and that is just 90 months away from now.
Most people accept that F1’s emissions from the tailpipes of its cars is negligable in the great scheme of things, though the contributions of travelling fans is not. This issue is not confined to F1 among international sports, incidentally, but the difference is F1 has an increasing influence on the car buying and driving habits of consumers worldwide, there being around 1.5 billion cars serving the eight billion people currently living in the world.
Hybrids are the type of power unit the automobile industry would like to sell, retaining their traditional ICEs while, at the same time, being able to claim sustainability credentials
Efficiency drive
In 2014, F1 set out to become more efficient with
