Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team has become the first motorsport team to sign The Climate Pledge.

The team joins over 450 organisations who have signed The Climate Pledge, as part of a commitment to a more sustainable future.

By signing The Climate Pledge, signatories commit to transparency around the implementation of their decarbonisation strategies and their actions taken to neutralise any remaining emissions with quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets.

Sally Fouts, Global Lead for The Climate Pledge at Amazon said: “We need every sector to join us in reducing global emissions, so we’re delighted to welcome the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team to The Climate Pledge.

“We look forward to collaborating with the team on solutions as it races to be net-zero carbon by 2040.”

By signing The Climate Pledge, the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team agrees to:

• Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis
• Implement decarbonisation strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business change and innovation; including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies
• Neutralise any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent and socially beneficial offsets to achieve Net Zero annual carbon emissions by 2040

Through the group, the team will be able to share best practice and take joint action with fellow signatories as they transition toward a Net Zero carbon future.

As a team, they are progressing on the journey to meet the target of Race Team controlled Net Zero in 2030.

Having assessed the full supply chain emissions last year, Mercedes are developing Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) aligned near term and Net Zero targets for those emissions, and the commitment to The Climate Pledge confirms there intent to achieve Net Zero across all scopes by 2040.

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team said: “Signing The Climate Pledge is another demonstration of our intent to perform to the highest standard on sustainability.

“We want to win through sustainable high performance, and to win within the societal and planetary boundaries which exist.

“The ability to collaborate with many of these leading organisations, striving for the same goal, offers considerable benefits for all signatories.”

The team have already taken bold action to address and significantly reduce emissions by purchasing alternative fuels for both land and air travel.

In 2022, savings of over 2,600 tCO2 were achieved through pioneering investment into Sustainable Aviation Fuel through a book and claim model, with a resulting 21 percent reduction in our air travel emissions.

Following a successful trial, the use of HVO100 biofuel in our race and hospitality trucks and generators during the 2023 European season saved 339 tCO2.

Mercedes will start to 2024 Formula One season in Bahrain on February 29 as they look to regain the Constructors Championship and give either Lewis Hamilton his eighth title before he moves to Ferrari or George Russell his first.