New report shows enormous power of fleet managers over our climate
10 June, 2015
Wednesday 10th June, London. A new report from analysts CE Delft shows
how corporate fleet managers could save millions of tonnes of CO₂,
and €28 billion a year, with available efficiency measures and clean
technologies.
The statistics in the report imply that
corporate fleet managers have more power over the composition of our atmosphere
than most politicians, or even most oil executives.
In response to the goverment announcing a £500 million funding package to
support Ultra Low Emission Vehicles, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at
Greenpeace UK, said :
"As the first oil
arrives from the fragile Arctic, there has never been a better time to push our
vehicles towards going low carbon. Not only does this investment boost
Britain’s clean tech sector and maintain our leading position in an expanding
global market, but in the long run it will help us stop poisoning our cities
and trashing the environment for oil."
Activists scale building in minister’s constituency
13 May, 2013
Greenpeace has this morning released confidential internal policy documents
from Transport Minister Norman Baker that shows how he is blocking new
legislation to reduce carbon emissions from new cars.
The proposed law could save motorists up to £400 per year, and have been
proposed by leading Liberal Democrat MEP Fiona Hall.
In the leaked briefing Baker and his officials call for ‘opposing’ a
proposal by Liberal Democrat Fiona Hall, who
sits on the Industry Research and Energy (ITRE) committee of the European
Parliament, which called for the reduction
of CO2 emissions from all new cars to 70g CO2/km for 2025. In the document the
minister explains why he wants MEPs to vote against his fellow Lib Dem’s proposal.
Among the other details the internal documents
show are:
Posted by jamie — 6 February 2008 at 11:48am
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As one
fossil fuel giant sidelines its alternative energy projects and invests in even
more damaging technologies such as tar sands, the former head of another
multinational has made some startling demands vis a vis car efficiency. To all
intents and purposes, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart- ex-chairmen of Shell - wants to
see all gas guzzlers banned.
Expanding on a
column he wrote for the BBC website, Sir Mark said that the EU should bring in
a minimum standard of 35 miles per gallon (mpg). "Nobody needs a car that does
10-15mpg," he said. "We need very tough regulation saying that you
can't drive or build something less than a certain standard. You would be
allowed to drive an Aston Martin - but only if it did 50-60mpg."
Commenting on today's announcement of a proposed new EU law on car emissions, Anna Jones, transport campaigner for Greenpeace, said:
"These Brussels bureaucrats must be driven to distraction. They should hang their petrol-heads in shame at their kowtowing to a car industry seemingly obsessed with wrecking the climate.
"The EU has let car manufacturers speed off with a weak proposal that lacks any long-term standards and offers an open road to overweight gas-guzzlers."
Posted by jamie — 13 June 2007 at 11:01am
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Treehugger reminds us that tomorrow is National Liftshare Day, when everyone is encouraged to make sure as many seats as possible are filled for those essential car journeys.
A coalition of some of Britain's biggest green groups is launching an advertising campaign on Wednesday 9 May attacking environmentally destructive 'bio-fuels'.
The adverts feature a petrol pump held to the head of an orang-utan. "Tell the Government to choose the right biofuel." it says, "or the orang-utan gets it."
Posted by jamie — 9 May 2007 at 12:00am
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As you may have already seen, along with WWF, the RSPB, Friends of the Earth and enoughsenough.org, we've placed an advert in several of today's papers warning the government about the environmental risks of biofuels as an alternative to petrol and diesel. Hang on, I imagine some of you are saying right now, aren't they supposed to be clean and green with the power to save us from the tyranny of fossil fuels? Well, yes... and no.
