LowCVP calls for a life-cycle CO2 metric to better inform policy

The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) is calling for the development and introduction of a life cycle CO2 metric to better inform policy.

By 2030 over 70% of CO2 emissions from typical new road vehicles could arise during the production – rather than use – phase of the life cycle of a typical vehicle.
 
Life cycle assessment is at the foundation of the LowCVP’s 2019-20 work programme which aims to create the building blocks and evidence base across all road transport areas to enable the largest, most rapid reductions in total greenhouse gas emissions from transport.
 
LowCVP’s Head of Projects, Gloria Esposito will be presenting the LowCVP’s work on life cycle assessment at the two-day Cenex-LCV2019 Event which begins at Millbrook today. She will call for a full review and update of existing automotive life cycle emissions inventories, for low carbon vehicle policy to take account of these metrics and for automotive sector guidelines to be based upon them while ensuring consistency and comparability of data.
 
Gloria Esposito said: “Life Cycle thinking must become mainstream in policy considerations in the UK – and elsewhere – as the impacts of road vehicles during the production (and to a lesser extent, disposal) phases of the vehicle life cycle become much more prominent.
 
“A stronger evidence base needs to be developed and used to embed life cycle thinking into the UK’s supply chains, in policy and regulatory discussions and in the EU’s considerations around future car CO2 regulation."