The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
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The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) sets out to reduce the carbon emissions from road transport in the UK with a clear focus on accelerating the adoption of low carbon vehicles and fuels; other strategies for reducing transport carbon emissions, for example modal shift towards cycling and walking or reducing traffic congestion through intelligent transport systems are out of scope and considered to be the preserve of other expert bodies. The UK government has set itself targets for reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions and recognises that achieving that target will require emissions from road transport, which are significant, to be cut. In the UK, as in most countries, road transport of people and freight is embedded into everyday life: there are many issues and stakeholders in any change. The LowCVP is a public-private membership organisation which operates by bringing significant stakeholders together to provide broad-based expert commentary on the issues, to stimulate promising initiatives, and to encourage lower carbon vehicle and fuel technologies and businesses.
Membership is open to organisations with a stake in the UK’s move to low carbon vehicles and fuels; some 200 organisations were members in 2015 drawn from industry, academic institutions, consumer groups and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s).
This diversity of stakeholders holding a common interest in low carbon vehicles and fuels, and willing to work together to tackle current issues, is a distinguishing feature of the LowCVP and one of the reasons that it receives UK government funding. The partnership's scope is restricted to low carbon vehicles and fuels and so, while it recognises the existence and importance of other issues in reducing the carbon intensity of road transport (for example intelligent transport systems or modal shift), it does not work outside its scope.
It is a membership organisation with a Board of Directors, a Members Council and a Secretariat. Membership is open to organisations which have a stake in the UK's move to low carbon vehicles and fuels and agrees with the Partnership's membership principles and commitments. The current CEO is Andy Eastlake and the chairman of the board is Darran Messem
The LowCVP has contributed to many relevant issues since it was formed, amongst these the implementation of Vehicle Labelling to inform buyers of the fuel economy of new and used cars, programmes to bring low carbon buses into use (Hybrid buses in London), an evaluation of the success of UK government intervention to promote the development of low carbon vehicle technology, and its work to advise government on biofuel issues are particularly noteworthy.
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