“Protecting the environment doesn’t have to be boring,” insists explorer Bertrand Piccard, who set out on a mission in 2017 to gather and promote a list of 1,000 economically profitable ways to ...

"How can we make [aviation] different if fuel is the limit?” Bertrand Piccard asked EBACE 2024 attendees. Credit: Jeremy Kariuki/Aviation Week Network GENEVA—A record-breaking third-generation aviator ...

Having flown around the world first in a balloon and then in a solar-powered aircraft, Bertrand Piccard isn’t someone who is afraid of a challenge. For the past three years, he and the team at his ...

Ambition is not a dirty word—especially if you’re Bertrand Piccard. The explorer, psychiatrist, and environmentalist aims to “promote sustainability through spectacular actions” to prove that a ...

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. In 2016, he did it ...

LES SABLES D'OLONNE – LES SABLES D'When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about ...

At COP27, UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard’s Solar Impulse Foundation launched the Solutions Guide for Cities - a compilation of local clean-tech solutions designed to ...