UCI hails 20% emissions reduction as it lays out sustainability plan

Report is part of world governing body’s commitment to reduce impact of its operations on environment

David Lappartient
UCI president David Lappartient speaking at the recent Glasgow World Championships
(Image credit: SWpix.com)

The UCI has hailed a 20% reduction in its own carbon emissions as it publishes its  first sustainability strategy report.

The report, released yesterday, comes hot on the back of UCI President David Lappartient’s exclusive interview with Cycling Weekly in which he discussed ways in which to make professional cycling sustainable.

“There is no other choice but to change,” Lappartient said.

The 20% reduction in the UCI's own organisational emissions was achieved in part through improved energy efficiency of the UCI headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland. Its target is a 50% reduction by 2030.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.