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2x Olympic Gold Medallist Sailor Hannah Mills Joins Team Panasonic Raising Awareness for Climate Action
30/01/2024
Panasonic has announced that 2x Olympic
Champion and 3x World Champion Hannah Mills OBE (Order of the British Empire)
has become the latest world-class athlete to join the European Team Panasonic
family, alongside fellow Olympian Malaika Mihambo and Paralympian Hannah
Cockroft.
With a
mutual unwavering commitment to raising sustainability awareness and driving
change, Hannah and Panasonic will utilise the high-profile platform of sports
to encourage climate action worldwide.
Hannah
Mills is hugely passionate about the environment and gender equality and
equity. She is determined to harness the power of sports and sporting passion
to change behaviour and influence as many individuals, businesses, and
governments as possible into delivering positive impact.
Her
passion has driven her to becoming a sustainability ambassador for the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the ‘Global Purpose Ambassador’ for
SailGP (an international sailing competition that features
high-performance 50-foot foiling catamarans).
Hannah
also launched the Big Plastic Pledge, with support from the IOC, a
global campaign which calls on athletes and fans to reduce the use of
single-use plastic in their daily lives. She is also the co-founder of Athletes
of the World, an athlete group campaigning for positive impact around climate
change.
On the water, Hannah has won both a silver medal
for Team GB in the Olympic Games London 2012 and gold in the same event at Rio
2016. She became Olympian
Champion again at Tokyo 2020.
Hannah’s accomplishments were recognised in 2021
when she was appointed OBE for her continued services to sailing and the
environment.
As part
of Team Panasonic, Hannah will be striving to further advance awareness for the
need of everyone to take action in the fight against climate change and
encourage collaboration between sport and business to drive change.
Speaking of partnering with Panasonic,
Hannah comments, “We need the same passion and energy as we have for sports for
sustainability – where we all back the planet as our Team.
“Working with a business the size and
scale of Panasonic on sustainability is truly exciting. Panasonic’s GREEN
IMPACT campaign is one of the few sustainability plans I’ve read from a company
of such scale that is clear, understandable and looks at all areas of the
business and the impact that can be achieved.
“Achieving net zero of its own operations
by 2030 through reduction, avoidance and technological innovations is, in my
opinion the responsibility which not only Panasonic should work for but for all
business and industry. Seeing that from Panasonic along with a plan to back it
up makes me excited to see what we can achieve together.”
Team Panasonic Athletes Campaign for
Sustainability
Hannah
Mills joins Malaika Mihambo and Hannah Cockroft as part of the European Team
Panasonic family. Together with Panasonic they will encourage action for
sustainability efforts towards the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Junichi Suzuki, Chairman and CEO of
Panasonic Europe B.V. comments, “Hannah is not only the world’s most successful
female Olympic sailing athlete, but her impressive sustainability credentials
mark her out as a true leader in her field.
“Shining a light on not just what we
should be doing for climate action, but how it is a fundamental requirement for
any business, and by working with exceptional athletes like Hannah Mills as
part of Team Panasonic, we extend our opportunity to do so.”