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Leasedrive launches Carbon:Manager to assist clients towards running a ‘greener’ fleet
19 September 2006

The Leasedrive Group, the largest independent privately-owned vehicle management group in the UK, has teamed up with leading climate change business The CarbonNeutral Company to launch Carbon:Manager, allowing company car drivers to offset their C02 emissions to become CarbonNeutral drivers.

Commercial director, Roddy Graham said: “The issue of climate change is becoming increasingly critical and companies are looking for ways to significantly reduce their C02 emissions as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility. The Carbon:Manager programme is a simple, effective first step towards running a greener fleet. Fully integrated within Drive:Manager, our online total vehicle management system, Carbon:Manager allows our clients to measure and reduce to ‘net zero’ the amount of C02 emissions associated with their fleet. It has been successfully tried and tested by one of our major blue chip clients.”

Carbon:Manager is a low-cost green option for employers, which is easy to implement. It can form part of a corporate CSR programme and will produce reports allowing management to monitor progress. For company car drivers, Carbon:Manager offers them the ‘feel-good’ factor of having taken positive action to help the environment through low monthly payments. These are calculated on a ‘per tonne’ basis (i.e. for every one tonne of C02 a vehicle produces, the company and/or driver pays for one tonne of C02 to be saved through a CarbonNeutral project throughout the world). The cost varies between £3 and £8 per month depending on the vehicle type and estimated annual mileage.

The sign-up process is simple to complete and participating drivers receive a CarbonNeutral e-presentation containing a personalised CarbonNeutral certificate and details of their chosen project.

Vehicle fleets running on fossil fuels are a major contributor of C02 emissions, producing in general up to 20 per cent of a company’s total C02 output. Each company car produces on average its own weight in C02 per year.

Examples of offset projects include technology transfers (e.g. replacement of fossil fuel-based energy with solar energy) and forestry projects (where trees soak up C02 directly into the atmosphere).

Notes to Editors:

The company works with over 200 B2B, B2C, NGO and government clients including BSkyB, Honda, Avis Europe, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, American Express, Berkeley Homes, Ricoh and the Radio Taxis Group as well as celebrities and 50,000+ consumer clients.

CarbonNeutral®, the registered trademark of The CarbonNeutral Company, is the world’s leading brand mark for action on climate change. It means global warming emissions have been measured, reductions recommended, and the remaining emissions ‘offset’ through renewable energy and/or sustainable forestry projects.

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