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Welcome to the Roadmap 2030 shared industry platform. It has been created as part of The Ocean Race's Sustainable Boat Building Innovation Workshop Series that has brought together representatives from over 80 leading industry companies and teams. It's format and content is aligned with the 2030 Roadmap, co-created with workshop participants, towards circularity of materials, decarbonisation of energy, zero-waste and the development of supporting enablers. The final workshop in the series will be held digitally on Wednesday 7th December 2022.
The goal of this platform is to accelerate the marine industry's transition to a sustainable future by hosting case studies, best practices, data other knowledge that has been identified as important by the industry. On each page you can see the relevant Roadmap actions that were identified per theme at the 2021 Lorient workshop as well as the specific platform development targets that were identified at the March digital check in. We have tried to follow industry suggestions as much as possible. This platform intends to be practical and offers users opportunities throughout to share and suggest other resources that are worth adding to the relevant databases. Any resources on this platform that have been created as a direct result of the Innovation Workshop Series or that directly progress the Roadmap 2030 are highlighted with a **ROADMAP ACTION**
This is a Beta version and industry feedback is being actively sought. Please send any ideas for improvement to Anne-Cecile Turner and/or Kellie Covington or add directly to this google document.
annececile.turner@theoceanrace.com
Note : While this platform shares links to commercial companies and products this is for information sharing purposes only and does not mean that the platform is endorsing these products or services.
Circular materials are materials that can be reused, repaired, and recycled (technical cycle) and/or that can be returned safely to the biosphere (biological cycle). Read more here.
Applying circular strategies to the key construction materials of cement, steel, plastic and aluminium could reduce global GHG emissions by 40% by 2050.
Approximately 30% carbon fibre is lost during the manufacturing process, (Composites World, 2019), 9000 GRP boats are abandoned in Europe each year (Yachting Monthly, 2021) and an IMOCA has a 3:1 waste to boat ratio. (Team 11th Hour Racing, 2021).
DECARBONISED & EFFICIENT ENERGY
To meet global ambition to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees we must achieve a 50% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030 (Paris Agreement, 2015). Energy efficiency could deliver 40% of the reductions needed to meet this goal (IEA, 2022) and switching to renewable energy can immediately remove your scope 2 emissions (see energy page).
Photo credit : Youth Worlds, Corpus Christi (20XX)
Enablers are the key elements for building momentum. The Roadmap has identified that we need to integrate Life Cycle Analysis into the design and build process, design rules that encourage sustainable innovation, increase industry collaboration and gain the support of sponsors.
Co-Created Industry Roadmap 2030
The development of the roadmap below was informed by industry research and a period of stakeholder engagement as well as the 2021 Lorient Innovation Workshop. The supporting research and documentation can be accessed below. In March 2022 The Ocean Race hosted a digital check in to specifically focus on the platform development and identify what resources it should host, the digital check in report can be found here.
Supporting research and documentation
The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race
Since 2016 The Ocean Race has hosted 4 workshops on the subject of sustainable boat building, 2 of these were part of the Racing with Purpose Innovation Workshop Series and the final workshop of this series is due to be hosted at the end of 2022. More information on this, and other Racing with Purpose initiatives, can be found here.
The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race
In 2021 The Ocean Race undertook an industry based survey to better understand the barriers and enablers the boat building industry is facing as it strives to reduce its impacts.
The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race
During the Innovation workshop series multiple actions have been identified by the industry. To promote and share best practices The Ocean Race has gathered these into this living document.
The Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust
Established in 2001, the Carbon Trust works with businesses, governments and institutions around the world, helping them contribute to, and benefit from, a more sustainable future through carbon reduction, resource efficiency strategies, and commercialising low carbon businesses, systems and technologies.
In 2021 The Carbon Trust published this report on the decarbonisation of the European Recreational Marine Craft sector. As sailboats only account for 15% of the European market the actions in this report are strongly focused on the decarbonisation of propulsion systems, which is less critical for sailboats, but the findings are stil highly pertinent and the research has fed into the development of the 2030 Roadmap. The Carbon Trust is also a workshop particpant.
World Sailing
World Sailing
Ratified at World Sailing’s 2018 Mid-Year meeting in London, World Sailing’s Sustainability Agenda 2030 outlines how the sport will contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainability Agenda 2030 is split up into World Sailing’s six main operational areas with a total of 56 different targets. The targets range from participation to gender equality, water quality to single use plastic.
Supported by the International Olympic Committee and World Sailing’s partners, delivery of the Sustainability Agenda 2030 will be ongoing with various timeframes for achievement of the targets to create a more sustainable future for the planet and people.
The RYA launched its Sustainability Strategy in July 2020. The Strategy seeks to address key international concerns about the environment, along with wider sustainability issues such as labour rights and anti-corruption. It contains an initial action plan for delivery over the next 12-18 months and targets 2030 to achieve our goals.
RYA
RYA
The RYA published its Carbon Pathway to Zero document in July 2021. This ambitious document outlines the RYA's vision for a zero carbon recreational boating sector by 2050.
United Nations
United Nations
UN Climate Change invites sports organizations and their stakeholders to join a new climate action for sport movement. This initiative aims at supporting and guiding sports actors in achieving global climate change goals.
Sports organizations can display climate leadership by engaging together in the climate neutrality journey. They can achieve this by taking responsibility for their climate footprint, which in turn will incentivize climate action beyond the sports sector, and therefore help global ambition step-up in the face of the threat posed by climate change.
The Green Blue
The Green Blue
The Green Blue is the joint environment programme developed by the RYA and British Marine. Launched in 2005, its mission is to promote a sustainable leisure marine sector in the UK.
The website contains excellent resources to reduce the environmental impacts of yachting activities and they have campaigns currently looking at Antifouling, Invahsive Species, Wildlife & Habitat Protection & Seabed Habitat Protection.
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