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Bertrand Piccard is an explorer on a mission. The man behind the world’s first solar plane to fly around the world wants us to embrace renewable energy, before it’s too late.
Bertrand Piccard shows how new technologies can revolutionize the blue economy and drive sustainable development.
Bertrand Piccard is no stranger to achieving the improbable. In 1999, the Swiss aviator and his copilot Brian Jones were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon.
Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard touches Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, at the press presentation of the project in a hangar in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, Thursday ...
GENEVA—A record-breaking third-generation aviator, Bertrand Piccard, reflected on his family’s aviation history during the opening keynote session at the European Business Aviation Convention ...
In August 1960, Bertrand Piccard's father, Jacques, and Don Walsh became the first humans ever to reach the bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, the deepest known spot on Earth.
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UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...
On March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.
Bertrand Piccard is an explorer on a mission. The man behind the world’s first solar plane to fly around the world wants us to embrace renewable energy, before it’s too late.
Bertrand Piccard: What I noticed in COP27 - still like in the years before, the governments are afraid to commit to ambitious NDCs ...