temporada 2021

Lac Rose - Senegal 

29-30 of May

Lac Rose is an incredible pink-coloured lake located 30 km from Dakar. A place surrounded by sea that symbolises the impact of climate change on these ecosystems.

Oceans are the lungs of the Earth. And the survival of humanity depends on their protection. Climate change and unsustainable human activities are distorting their balance.

Climate challenges include rising sea-levels - putting the very existence of some islands at risk - and ocean warming, contributing to the deterioration of ecosystems such as coral reefs. Not to mention the contamination of their waters.

Mangrove ecosystems play an important role in the progress of coastal communities in the likes of Senegal, providing essential goods and services. In addition to being a carbon store, they act as flood barriers and create natural fish farms.

- THE PROBLEM: Oceans are the main carbon stores, but they are in crisis: half of coral reefs and a third of mangroves and seagrasses have already been lost, leaving between 100 and 300 million people vulnerable to flooding. Crucial fish stocks are on the point of collapse, threatening not only food security for the human population that depends on them but the entire food chain.

Plastics, oil spills and agrochemicals are destroying ocean environments and contaminating food chains. Climate change is causing our oceans to heat up, making them more acidic, and bleaching coral reefs, melting the ice at the poles and endangering the life they sustain.

- SOLUTIONS: Extreme E will bring its partners together to address the region's most critical social and environmental issues — rising sea levels, marine ecosystem degradation and desertification — aggravated by overfishing, inadequate waste management and climate change.

The project will focus on five areas totalling 60 hectares, the equivalent of around 112 football pitches, with the aim of reforesting mangroves, providing education to local populations and improving social cohesion.

Kangerlussuaq - Greenland 

28-29 of August

Extreme E will head to Russell Glacier in Greenland to raise awareness of the rate at which ice is melting and its consequences for humanity.

Since the 1970s, 35 % of ice at the North Pole has disappeared. Climate change accelerates the ongoing melting of the ice cap, rising sea levels and puts severe pressure on species that inhabit these ecosystems, such as the polar bear and ringed seal.

The increase in global temperature means that 63 % of Greenland's glaciers are in decline. Every tonne of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere causes the disappearance of three square metres of ice in the Arctic during the warmer months.

The Arctic is home to around four million people, including indigenous communities spread across eight countries (Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Greenland and the US)

As well as around 450 types of fish, 280 species of birds and 130 types of mammals including polar bears, narwhals and Arctic foxes.

- THE PROBLEM: Global warming is contributing to the Arctic warming at twice the global average, which has accelerated the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

With less sea ice, fewer of the sun's rays are reflected, leaving the ocean to absorb more energy in the form of heat — further accelerating warming. The International Energy Agency predicts an increase of 2.7°C by 2100 compared with pre-industrial levels. An increase in carbon dioxide concentration to 855 parts per million (more than double the current level) would effectively eliminate the ice mass at the North Pole.

- SOLUTIONS: With the help of world-leading Arctic expert, Professor Peter Wadhams, Extreme E will support research into protecting Arctic ice. Exploring solutions to slow the melting of ice and its consequences on biodiversity is a vital challenge for ensuring a sustainable future.

Sardinia - Italy

23-24 of October 

Bovington - United Kindom

18-19 of December

A relevant opportunity to raise climate ambition and the role of electric mobility in the transition to a decarbonised and prosperous economy and society.

Rising sea levels as a result of global warming threaten the ecosystems that nourish the coasts as well as the prosperity of their inhabitants.

There is no place in the world that can escape the effects of climate change. Neither can the UK, nor can its coasts. This is one of the reasons why Extreme E wants to raise awareness, in the last race of the first season of the championship, about one of the consequences that the climate crisis is producing: the rise in sea level. This phenomenon is causing coastal land erosion, endangering homes, surrounding crops and habitats, as well as tourist areas, affecting not only the environmental but also the social and economic structure of communities.

And how does sea level rise? In three ways: by thermal expansion (water tends to expand as it warms up, increasing the size of the oceans), by melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland, and by the melting of polar caps and glaciers.

- THE PROBLEM: Rising sea levels, caused by climate change, are eroding coastal ecosystems, threatening the environmental balance and the communities prosperity that inhabit these environments.

- SOLUTIONS: Extreme E continues to define the Legacy programme for the final race of the year. According to the official information on its website, it will reveal the details days before the event.