We welcome three new members to our stellar expert panel:
- Danang Parikesit is a leading transportation expert in Asia, President of the Indonesian Transport Society, Professor of Transportation at Universitas Gadjah Mada anda transport policy advisor to the Indonesian Government.
- Carol Lee Rawn is Director of the Transportation Program at Ceres, a Boston-based NGO.
- Nick Owen is principal consultant at E4 tech transport consultants in London.
The Low-Carbon Transport Technical Working Group has been charged with developing eligibility criteria for transport investments under the Climate Bonds Standard. Transport is responsible for some 23% of global energy related emissions; a rapid shift to low-carbon transport is essential to addressing climate change.
The group has been reviewing proposals for criteria related to rail, bus rapid transit systems and low-emission and electric vehicles. These will be published for public consultation in coming weeks.
Other members of the Working Group are:
- Heather Allen, Transport Research Laboratory, London
- Lewis Fulton, University of California's Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
- Michael Replogle, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Washington DC
- Gary Hoffman, rail planning consultant, GM Hoffman Consulting, Washington D.C.
- Elizabeth Deakin, University of California's Berkeley Institute for Environment Design
- Karl-Josef Kuhn, Siemens, Munich
- Rupert Faussett, Green Cities program, Forum for the Future, London
- Cornie Huizenga, SLoCaT - partnership for sustainable low carbon transport, Shanghai
- Benoit Lefevre, World Resources Institute, Washington DC
- Arie Bleijenberg, TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Delft
- Nina Renshaw, Transport & Environment, Brussels
- He Dongquan, China Sustainable Transportation Centre, China Energy Foundation, Beijing
