FUNCHAL, 5 June 2007- Today is the World Environment Day, an international celebration that was started in 1974.
Environment is one of the key issues nowadays, and the United Nations are doing their best to preserve what we have.
The FIM-Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme fully supports this project as an International body. Since 1994 FIM has edicted and implemented an Environmental Code for all is motorcycle events. The FIM was also the first International Sports Federation ever to adopt an environmental code. Moreover, a Memorandum of Cooperation between the FIM and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was signed last December in Lausanne, during the Global Forum for Sport and Environment, whose main objective is to provide a framework for cooperation and support aiming at reducing the environmental impact of motorcycle events.
In off-road racing, such impact can be summarized in two aspects: sound and protection of the ground.
In its sports regulations, FIM has adopted very strict sound level regulations to reduce the acoustic pollution dramatically.
Moreover, all teams involved in the off-road FIM World Championships use environmental mats to prevent chemical liquids from contaminating the ground.
 | KTM’s mechanic changing the oil of Bernd Hiemer’s machine |
As FIM contractual partner for Motocross, SuperMoto and Snowcross, Youthstream fully supports the FIM sports rules, as well as the FIM Environmental Code.
With a massive TV and other media coverage, the motorsports Youthstream promotes are significant means to raise environmental awareness.
Youthstream took part in FIM’s project of making people more aware of the 2007 World Environment Day’s concepts by promoting the action during the third round of the SuperMoto World Championship, that was held in Villars sous Ecot on Sunday June 3.
Youthstream always makes sure that the local GP organizers respect the FIM Environmental Code; in the Organizers’ Manual that Youthstream gives to each GP promoter there are clear references to the respect of the environment.
2006 SuperMoto World Champions Thierry Van Den Bosch and Bernd Hiemer, together with their respective manufacturers Aprilia and KTM, helped in the promotion of the World Environment Day by starring in a dedicated TV feature, that will be broadcast worldwide via the 52 minute highlights DVD- edited at the end of every SuperMoto Grand Prix.
 | Thierry Van Den Bosch talking about environmental topics |
On Sunday morning, Aprilia Off Road’s Team Manager Ennio Marchesin and KTM Italia Miglio’s Team Manager Massimo Migliorati – on behalf of Aprilia and KTM respectively - joined Youthstream General Manager Luigi Zompetti and the FIM's CMS President Dr. Wolfgang Srb in a press conference explaining the initiative.
All parties agreed that being respective towards the environment is also safeguarding off-road sports; more sound is not equal to more power, and sound level regulations must be fully respected; the environmental carpet must be used for handling parts and materials in responsible way to protect the ground when working on motorcycles .
 | The parties involved in Sunday’s press conference; from left to right: Ennio Marchesin, Luigi Zompetti, Dr. Wolfgang Srb, Massimo Migliorati |
FFM- Fédération Française de Motocyclisme and MCV-Moto Club Villars were both involved in the French SuperMoto Grand Prix, and gave the initiative their full support on site.
Youthstream is the company that manages the exclusive television, marketing and promotional world wide rights of the FIM Motocross World Championship, the FIM Motocross of Nations, the FIM SuperMoto World Championship, the FIM SuperMoto of Nations, the FIM Snowcross World Championship, the UEM Motocross European Championship and the UEM SuperMoto European Championship.
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