Transport group’s drive to cut harmful emissions (From The Northern Echo)

Transport group’s drive to cut harmful emissions

11:29am Tuesday 1st December 2009

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TRANSPORT group Arriva has been named a leading force in cutting harmful emissions and setting targets for the future.

Researchers at the Edinburgh University Business School and Ends Carbon, a specialist carbon ratings agency, analysed the carbon emissions performance and published targets of more than 600 household names, with only 121 meeting the standard to be judged Brand Emissions Leaders.

In the transport sector, Sunderland-based Arriva was identified as a Brand Emissions Leader.

Last year, Arriva set itself a challenge of reducing its like-for-like greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent, by 2012 – from a 2006 base level.

Arriva chief executive David Martin said: “Even though bus and rail services already have many environmental advantages over some other modes of transport, we still believe it is important to improve the efficiency of our own operations.

“Arriva is rapidly deploying a range of carbon reduction technologies in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. These include aids to more economical, smoother driving, a wide range of alternative fuels, and advanced hybrid vehicles. It’s rewarding to see our efforts recognised in this survey which puts us alongside some of the best respected household names.”

The research was conducted using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project (the largest carbon database in the world), and a survey of company websites and reports.

The organisations identified as Brand Emissions Leaders were judged to have demonstrated they are reducing emissions and have targets in line with the UK Government’s Copenhagen goal of 34 per cent carbon emissions reductions by 2020 from 1990 levels.

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