Hansen Motorsport has joined the race against climate change as the first rallycross team to become a signatory of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s ‘Sports for Climate Action’ initiative, affirming its push towards building a more sustainable future for motorsport and wider society. As multiple top-level rallycross championships prepare to adopt all-electric formulas in 2022, Hansen has recognised its responsibility to play an active role in improving the sustainability of motorsport and encouraging the wider motorsport community to work towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. This commitment is based on five key principles laid out in the UNFCCC’s Sports for Climate Action Framework:

• Promote greater environmental responsibility
• Reduce the overall climate impact from sports
• Use our platform to educate for climate action
• Promote sustainable and responsible consumption
• Advocate for climate action through our communications

These principles will inform the way Hansen operates in the future, working to reduce its own impact on the environment along with utilising our sport’s reach strive towards collective action for achieving climate neutrality. Susann Hansen, Team Manager for Hansen Motorsport, will oversee our team’s implementation of its new environmental strategy and push the team forwards to meet its sustainability goals. By addressing environmental and sustainability issues through the medium of rallycross, a discipline that reaches millions of people across the globe, Hansen plans to lead by example and inspire motorsport fans to embrace the challenge of tackling climate change together. Susann Hansen, Team Manager, Hansen Motorsport: “Our family has always been passionate about environmental issues. Taking the next step and formally committing Hansen Motorsport to play a bigger role in taking responsibility for a sustainable future was a natural progression of that passion. “Since our earliest years as a racing team we have been actively supporting charities like the World Wildlife Fund in their quest to tackle marine pollution, for example, but in the long term, this on its own is not enough. We must not only support others but take action as individuals. And that message is central to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, which was a key factor in making this commitment. “We are creating new systems and new policies in our team to reduce our carbon footprint, and to lower consumption of energy and materials. But most importantly we want to show we are taking the race against climate change seriously, and we will only reach the finish line victorious if each and every one of us is working towards that goal.”