LowCVP MD Andy Eastlake wins award for outstanding achievement
Fri 18 October 2013
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The LowCVP's Managing Director Andy Eastlake was recognised for his contribution to the promotion of low carbon road transport when he received GreenFleet's Outstanding Achievement Award at at an event held last night at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London.
Andy Eastlake has been Managing Director of the LowCVP for over 18 months (since March 2012).
The citation issued at the award to Andy commented that he took over the LowCVP at a challenging time against a backdrop of austerity and public sector funding cuts. While passing through some stormy waters, the Partnership has recently been able to make some notable contributions to cutting road transport carbon, particularly from buses - the LowCVP played a major role in designing the Green Bus Fund - and from commercial vehicles.
At the recent celebration of the Partnership's tenth anniversary, Andy introduced the theme 'Beyond the Tailpipe' which has helped to focus attention on emissions arising from fuel production and distribution; increasingly important with the arrival of plug-in electric vehicles, those using biofuels and future fuels like hydrogen. The 'Beyond the Tailpipe' theme was consolidated with a new report issued alongside the LowCVP's latest annual conference.
It was also noted that the motor industry has been one of the bright spots in an otherwise bleak economic picture over the last few years with rapid new car CO2 emissions reductions occurring alongside major UK investments in low carbon automotive technology.
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