Team Malizia, skippered by Pierre Casiraghi and Boris Herrmann have the great honour and pleasure to sail Greta Thunberg from the UK to New York for the UN Climate Action Summit on Malizia II.
The journey will start in
mid-August. Greta chose to sail with Team Malizia as they offered a
zero-carbon mode of transport to reach the USA.
Pierre
Casiraghi, founder of the
team and co-skipper for the transatlantic crossing states “I believe in
bringing awareness about rising global emissions and pollution due to human
activity. Convincing governments and international institutions to make the step
and enforce laws that will protect mankind and biodiversity is of the utmost
importance for the future of humanity. Greta is an ambassador who delivers a
fundamental message both for our society and for the survival of future
generations. Team Malizia and I are proud to take Greta across the Atlantic in
this challenging mode of transport, unfortunately today this is still the only
way without fossil fuel emissions. Hopefully this will change in the near
future. I respect Greta’s courage to take on this adventure and fully commit,
sacrifice and fight for probably the greatest challenge of
humanity.’'
Skipper and professional sailor
Boris Herrmann adds "Greta is an amazingly courageous person to be standing
up against ignorance and injustice regarding the climate crisis. I am not
surprised she considers this trip as something perfectly achievable for her -
taking into account her courage in speaking up in a loud and clear way even in
front of the most powerful people."
Fans and supporters should not
be worried, Malizia is one of the safest and fastest ocean sailings boats
in the world and the skippers are highly experienced and we have highly
experienced onshore teams supporting our mission. Boris confirms “Pierre and
I are conscious about our responsibility. We will make sure Greta reaches New
York in the safest possible way. I am thrilled that our sport ambition and
sailing project can play a small but hopefully important role in increasing
awareness for the most important challenge facing humanity today. I feel humbled
that Greta accepted our offer as the lowest-carbon option to cross the Atlantic
- despite the lack of comfort for her.”