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VIDEO: Airspeeder joins United Nations Sport for Climate Action framework and commits to long-term sustainable future

Air­speed­er has signed the Unit­ed Nations Sus­tain­abil­i­ty in Sport pledge, join­ing lead­ing names in glob­al sport such as For­mu­la E, the FIA and the Inter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee.

The Unit­ed Nations Sport for Cli­mate Action works towards two over­ar­ch­ing goals: achiev­ing a clear tra­jec­to­ry for the glob­al sports com­mu­ni­ty to com­bat cli­mate change — through com­mit­ments and part­ner­ships accord­ing to ver­i­fied stan­dards, includ­ing mea­sur­ing, reduc­ing, and report­ing green­house gas emis­sions, in line with the well below 2 degree sce­nario men­tioned in the Paris Agree­ment.

Addi­tion­al­ly, it seeks to har­ness the pow­er of glob­al sports as a uni­fy­ing tool to fed­er­ate and cre­ate sol­i­dar­i­ty among glob­al cit­i­zens for cli­mate action.

Matt Pear­son, Air­speed­er founder and CEO, said: “Air­speed­er exists at the con­flu­ence of next-gen­er­a­tion sport and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy. By rac­ing we has­ten the arrival of a clean-air mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion that will trans­form urban pas­sen­ger trans­port, glob­al logis­tics and even remote med­ical appli­ca­tions.

“We are a sport con­ceived amidst the urgent glob­al need to dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduce impact. This is per­fect­ly aligned with the inten­tions of the Unit­ed Nations sus­tain­abil­i­ty in sport pledge. We are proud to stand with the lead­ing sport­ing enti­ties on the plan­et to acknowl­edge our col­lec­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty to play a lead­er­ship role in the glob­al fight against cli­mate change.”

Par­tic­i­pants in the Sports for Cli­mate Action Frame­work com­mit to five prin­ci­ples: under­take sys­tem­at­ic efforts to pro­mote respon­si­bil­i­ty; reduce over­all cli­mate impact; edu­cate for cli­mate action; pro­mote sus­tain­able con­sump­tion; advo­cate for cli­mate action through com­mu­ni­ca­tion. 

These objec­tives and com­mit­ments are per­fect­ly aligned with Airspeeder’s mis­sion to fur­ther a clean-air mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion through the cre­ation of a sport built with sus­tain­abil­i­ty as a foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ple.

Air­speed­er is build­ing the world’s most pro­gres­sive motor­sport. It will see a full-grid of elec­tric fly­ing cars rac­ing close­ly at high speed, above some of the most visu­al­ly arrest­ing scenery in the world. 

From its incep­tion, Air­speed­er has been built in response to the glob­al require­ment to rapid­ly devel­op clean air mobil­i­ty tech­nolo­gies. This extends to the phi­los­o­phy around the stag­ing of races, events and oper­a­tions. 

It requires no resource-heavy infra­struc­ture. Tracks are built dig­i­tal­ly util­is­ing the lat­est LiDAR, Radar and Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Tech­nol­o­gy. This means there is no require­ment to build impact­ful infra­struc­ture. As a sport con­ceived in the age of glob­al stream­ing, race-day impact is also dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduced as it does not com­mer­cial­ly or con­cep­tu­al­ly rely on mass-spec­ta­tor atten­dance.

Air­speed­er recent­ly made four key appoint­ments as it con­tin­ues with prepa­ra­tions for the next phase of devel­op­ment and first remote­ly pilot­ed races, set to take place in 2021. It also unveiled its Mk3 eVTOL fly­ing car ear­li­er this year, which is the world’s first fly­ing and remote­ly oper­at­ed rac­ing vehi­cle.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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