UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Jean-Michel Jarre has agreed to become the Artistic Director of the World Sky Race launched in a partnership between the nongovernmental U.S.-based World Air League and UNESCO's World Heritage Centre.

The aim of the World Sky Race is to promote environmental protection and the use of lighter-than-air skyships as a means to reduce pollution and pressures caused by transportation.

More info:
http://www.worldskyrace.com/executive_summary.htm

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43519&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL EVENT

The World Sky RaceT is an historic tour and competition of lighter-than-air skyships racing 30,000+ miles. In sixteen back-to-back races that completely span the globe, the winner will be crowned World Sky Champion.

In their quest, the competing skyships will travel from the Greenwich Prime Meridian southward to Africa and the Middle East, across the Indian Ocean to Equatorial Asia and through the Orient, island hop across the Pacific to the western shores of North America, down to Central America, up to the North Atlantic and crossing back to Prime Meridian for an exciting finish in an historic race, completing a full global circumnavigation.

The World Sky RaceT will be the largest man-made event seen by live spectators in the history of the human race.