How Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 is Expanding Global CO₂ Removal

The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team has taken a bold step in sustainability with a major expansion of its global carbon removals portfolio. 

This multi-year initiative positions the team at the forefront of high-integrity climate solutions, combining practical action with system-wide impact. 

By aligning projects with its race calendar and investing in both nature-based and technological removals, the team is delivering meaningful environmental benefits to communities and ecosystems across the globe.

Expanding carbon removals

The team’s expanded portfolio now includes seven new projects across six cutting-edge carbon removal technologies, including: 

• Direct air capture
• Biochar
• Biomass storage
• Carbon capture and storage
• Ocean alkalinity enhancement
• Enhanced rock weathering. 

Combined with existing initiatives, the portfolio targets approximately 18,900 tCO₂e in removals to help achieve Race Team Control Net Zero by 2030.

Projects are strategically located in Brazil, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and India, ensuring that climate impact is delivered where the team races and operates. 

CUR8, a leading carbon removal marketplace, rigorously assesses and verifies all projects, ensuring durability, transparency and best practice methodology. 

Partners such as Frontier, Ecometric and Chestnut Carbon further support innovative and scalable solutions.

Driving emissions reductions

The team’s net zero journey is defined by practical problem solving: cutting emissions where control is greatest while pushing for systemic change in harder-to-abate areas like aviation. 

“Emissions reduction remains our priority and high-quality carbon removals are essential for tackling the residual emissions that remain,” says Alice Ashpitel, Head of Sustainability at Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team.

“By investing early across a diverse set of technologies and regions, we’re contributing to upscaling durable climate solutions while supporting the communities and environments in which we race. 

“As a team, we are determined to engineer change on and off the track, so I’m proud to see our ambitious portfolio aiming to deliver meaningful impact far beyond our world.”

Emissions reporting is structured around two footprints:

• Race Team Control emissions: Scopes 1, 2 and partial Scope 3 emissions
  
  
• Total emissions: full Scope 1, 2 and 3 across the value chain.

The team is aiming to meet net zero goals by 2030, hoping to achieve a 75% reduction in directly controlled emissions, with the remainder offset via high-quality carbon removals following the Oxford Offsetting Principles.

By 2040, the team is aiming to achieve net zero across all scopes by 2040, addressing the harder to tackle emissions from purchased goods, services and supply chain activities.

In 2024, the team reduced Race Team Control emissions by 35% compared to 2022, thanks to initiatives including:

• HVO100 biofuel is used for 98% of European logistics
  
  
• An average coverage of 68% for aviation emissions with Sustainable Aviation Fuel certificates (SAFc), saving 9,860 tCO₂e
  
  
• Continued electrification of company vehicles
  
  
• Smart energy management and gas reduction at the Brackley factory.

Where emissions remain, durable carbon removals, spanning nature-based solutions and advanced technological methods, compensate for residual impact.

Sustainable logistics and energy

Reducing emissions in global logistics is one of the team’s biggest challenges. 

The strategy includes scaling SAF usage, developing next-generation race fuels and promoting biofuels. 

The Brackley factory has transitioned away from gas, using heat recovery units and electric solutions, while more than 200 team members now regularly commute via lift share, logging nearly 5,000 shared journeys in 2024. 

Company car fuel consumption has been reduced by 26% through a gradual transition to EVs.

Addressing Scope 3 emissions from suppliers is critical. 

In 2024, the team:

• Hosted its first supplier sustainability event for SMEs
  
  
• Explored recycled and bio-based material opportunities
  
  
• Introduced a new Supplier Code of Conduct
  
  
• Launched a screening tool to flag potential risks across the supply chain.

The team’s collaborative approach extends across motorsport, with active participation in the F1 ESG Working Group and engagement through its Sustainability Working Group.

Knowledge sharing and partnerships with Team Partners such as Signify, UBS, Nasdaq, Meta AI and Microsoft are helping accelerate climate solutions beyond Formula One.

By combining carbon removals, sustainable fuels, operational efficiency and supplier engagement, the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team demonstrates that high-performance racing and sustainability can advance together. 

The team’s integrated approach is designed not only to meet internal targets but also to scale solutions across the sport and the wider industry, accelerating progress toward global climate goals.