UK's green bus transition could deliver £248m by 2020

(0-nothing, 14 Nov 2016) Low-Carbon Emissions Buses (LCEBs) could deliver more than £248m in social benefits to the UK by 2020 and reduce transport emissions by 432,000 tonnes, after a new report outlined the benefits that current green fleets are demonstrating.

A report published by the LowCVP for Greener Journeys revealed that the current 3,760 LCEBs operating in UK towns and cities had saved 55,000 tonnes in emissions annually and delivered £8m in health and environmental benefits.

The report [http://www.lowcvp.org.uk/initiatives/leb/Home.htm ]  highlighted that 40% of new buses sold in 205 were LCEB certified, and if this proportion were to reach 100% by 2020 annual emissions savings would be the equivalent of removing 92,000 cars from the roads for a year.

LowCVP’s managing director Andy Eastlake said: “The UK’s bus sector has made great progress in introducing low emission, efficient technologies over the last decade. This has been in large part due to the support of government and the commitment of industry and other stakeholders to work together and drive change.

“This support and commitment needs to continue if the sector is to make a necessary contribution to cutting CO2 emissions, as well as to the increasingly urgent task of reducing pollution in our most badly affected towns and cities at least sufficient to meet 2020 air quality targets.”

See Low CVP partnership web site .

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0-nothing, 14 Nov 2016: UK's green bus transition could deliver £248m by 2020