Pirelli awarded FIA’s three-star environmental accreditation
Formula One’s sole tyre supplier Pirelli has been awarded three stars by the governing body of world motorsport, the FIA, as part of its Environmental Accreditation Programme.
The FIA Environmental Accreditation Programme is aimed at helping motor sport and mobility stakeholders worldwide to measure and enhance their environmental performance.
The three-star result is the highest score possible within the programme, which has been designed to demonstrate a series of measures that participants have to implement in order to achieve the best environmental standards.
Pirelli's environmental approach will enable the group to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Motorsport activities are also moving in this direction, starting with Formula 1: the company's principal campaign. Examples of Pirelli’s own environmental sustainability objectives, both in business and manufacturing, include the reduction of overall CO2 emissions by 25% by 2025 (compared to 2015 levels) as well as the aim of purchasing 100% of its electricity from renewable sources: a target already achieved for all of Pirelli’s European plants.
Some of the measures that Pirelli has undertaken within Formula 1 include increasing the use of renewable materials, elimination of single-use plastics from its trackside operations, and a supply chain that is fully managed according to environmental and social sustainability criteria. On top of that, Pirelli’s motorsport operation has successfully complied with a number of stringent sustainability audits that take in everything from carbon emissions to environmental impact.
Pirelli’s Senior Vice President of Prestige, Motorsport, Sustainability, and Future Mobility Giovanni Tronchetti Provera commented: “It’s a great honour for us to achieve the recognition of three stars from the FIA, as a focus on environmental sustainability is central to Pirelli’s development strategy and fully embedded in our motorsport business model. We have always placed an emphasis on sustainability in motorsport, working closely with the FIA and fully sharing the same vision of sustainable mobility and sport.”
Commenting on Pirelli’s achievement, Stefano Domenicali, President and Chief Executive Officer of Formula 1, added: “Pirelli has demonstrated a clear environmental direction and commitment that has led to it becoming the very first tyre company to pick up this award in motorsport. Formula 1 is well known for its innovation and technology, and we are using that heritage to ensure we have a sustainable future and solutions that can make a real-world difference. I want to congratulate Pirelli on this very impressive achievement and their ongoing dedication to Formula 1.”
