Whatever you call it, green, clean, or eco-friendly, the move toward carbon-free sailing has begun to take center stage in the conversation. Putting an ambitious stake in the water, French catamaran builder Fountaine Pajot (FP), which has built 4,000 cats in its 45-year history, has unveiled efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
“We don’t have all the solutions yet so there are still a lot of unknowns in the plan, but this is exciting,” Deputy CEO Romain Motteau said at the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis last fall, where he outlined the multi-pronged industrial plan called Odysséa24. “Part of the aim of this project is to energize innovation.”
FP’s first step was to assess the company’s existing carbon emissions, using 20 years of data and the international Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol for a life cycle analysis.
