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IMOCA boats cross the oceans thanks to a 100% sustainable fuel: the wind. Thanks to the power of the planet's weather systems, combined with the innovation of ocean racing over the past 30 years, an IMOCA skipper can cross the Atlantic in 10 days and circumnavigate the globe in less than 80, in total autonomy.
Onboard energy, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, materials, durability, communication, the developments are concrete and the transfer of technologies between competition and industry is intensifying.
Today, the aim is to bring together all the players in ocean racing to develop solutions for the future.
The IMOCA Class defines sustainability as the ability to develop sustainable and innovative performance systems while maintaining a balance between the social, economic and environmental actions of our daily lives. The goal is for future generations to flourish and enjoy the oceans.
To reverse the trend by 2030, the United Nations has established an agenda, illustrated by 17 Sustainable Development Goals corresponding to universal objectives. The latter provide a common basis that allows organisations adopting a sustainable development approach to illustrate their objectives and ambitions with the same references.
Our programme proposes actions in four areas varying long-term objectives and deadlines stretching through to the Vendée Globe 2024. We have decided to integrate these objectives into our approach and make sure our programme is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, by selecting the objectives that correspond with our actions.
CLIMATE DAY: Apart from racing single-handed around the world, more than a third of the skippers in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe are making an important contribution to global weather forecasting and the understanding of the…
•••Our Vendée Globe heroes perfectly understand the wind, waves, sea currents and climates of the earth. They remind us that our planet is small, blue, and that the ocean is a common good for humanity. But what they sometim…
•••ROAD TO THE VENDÉE GLOBE #6 - Many of the skippers in the IMOCA class are men and women who when competing in the various events in the circuit and in particular in the forthcoming Vendée Globe (which starts on 8th Novem…
•••Hosted live from Newport, RI, the latest online iteration of The Ocean Race Summits promoted solutions to restore health to the ocean.
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