Technology giant Panasonic has today announced Dorset Olympic sailor Hannah Mills as the latest athlete to join Team Panasonic.
She’ll be using her new role 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.
The twice Olympic gold medallist and three times world champion joins Team Panasonic alongside Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo and paralympic champion, Hannah Cockroft.
As well as her pursuits in the water, Hannah is hugely passionate about the environment having launched the Big Plastic Pledge in 2016.
She’s also co-founded Athletes of the World, an athlete group campaigning for positive impact around climate 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.”