Event, 10 April: 'Green and growth, we can have both: lessons from road transport and other sectors'
Mon 17 March 2014
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The Sustainability Hub extends an invitation to a free-to--attend event in Central London on Thurday 10 April (12.30-5pm). Hosted in association with the LowCVP, this event - featuring Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander - will examine how the motor industry has been successful in delivering both environmental gains alongside a growth in investment and jobs. The experience of the motor sector will be compared and contrasted with that of other sectors.
The event will examine how the UK can secure a technological edge and encourage industry to continue investing in in low carbon vehicle technologies by maintaining a consistent and long-term policy approach, avoiding calls to roll back commitments aimed at helping to achieve a low carbon future.
The automobile industry has been emerging as an exemplar for successful collaboration between industry, policy makers and other stakeholders in recent years with Government, at national and European levels; providing generally clear and consistent policy signals to encourage the introduction of greener, lower carbon and more efficient vehicles.
Carbon emissions from new cars sold in the UK have fallen by 30% since 2000. In recent years, the UK motor sector has been a bright spot in a generally bleak economic picture with many examples of significant investment, particularly in electric/hybrid vehicle production and other low carbon technologies which have provided jobs and growth, often in regions of otherwise low growth and weak economic prospects.
Experience from the road transport sector will be compared and contrasted with experience from other sectors by a collection of leading policy and industry speakers and commentators.
Speakers include: the Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Iain Wright MP, Shadow Industry Minister; Joe Greenwell, Chief Executive Officer, Automotive Investment Organisation; Stephen Crisp, Director of Global Government Affairs, Jaguar Land Rover; John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK; Professor Paul Ekins, Director, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources; Jennifer Webber, Director of External Affairs, RenewableUK; Dave Sowden, Chief Executive, Sustainable Energy Association; James Cameron, Chairman, Climate Change Capital and Andy Eastlake, Managing Director, LowCVP. The event will be chaired by James Murray, Editor, Business Green.
To register for this free event which will take place at RICS, 12 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AD please contact: jane@sustainability-hub.org
Click here for the full LowCVP event listing.
sustainability hub members include: ACE, ADBA, APG for Intelligent Energy, Calor Gas, Carillion, Conservative Environment Network, EN Algae, Energy Bill Revolution, Energy for London, Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, Greener Journeys, Green Liberal Democrats, Greenpeace, Larkfleet Homes, Low CVP, Mitsubishi Electric, National Energy Action, National Right to Fuel Campaign, Network of Energy Centres for Doctoral Training, PRASEG, RenewableUK, SERA, Solarcentury, Sustainable Energy Association, Tata Steel, Worcester Bosch, WWF
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