What is GreenFleet?
a set of tools to help businesses:
• Reduce emissions,
• Improve transport efficiency
• Reduce transport costs
• Offset emissions through tree planting.
QUICK LINKS TO GREENFLEET TOOLS...
GreenFleet Tree Planting to offset carbon emissions
GreenFleet Vehicle Procurement Tool
Sustainable Transport Action
The Honda TreeFund was developed to assist in the restoration of bio-diversity. It provides an opportunity for customers to become involved in the greening of their own local community and encourage local bio-diversity.
Everything you wanted to know about riding to work ... but were afraid to ask!
The question of petrol vs diesel and the environment is often debated. Honda's Graeme Seymour sheds his perspective on the issue.
For a business that literally runs on its ability to visit clients face to face across New Zealand, it’s absolutely vital to keep a mobile sales force humming along. Committed to reducing its environmental impact and reduce fuel costs, Hachette NZ called on GreenFleet.
The Ask an Expert Adviceline is a free service for SBN members and GreenFleet participants and provides access to advice from some of New Zealand's top sustainability experts. SBN has amalgamated a panel of specialists from within the organisation, as well as from a number of expert partners, who are able to provide a response or else source the information for you. Whether you're seeking recommendations for a recycling provider, or unsure of what you should be including in your emissions calculations, contact us with any sustainability question relating to your business.
Transport and vehicles are one of the categories on Greenlist, the World’s first Product and Services Directory where listings are compared with sustainable principles.
Flying on an occasional basis can add up to more CO2 emissions than the rest of your personal life combined. Even if your conscience has been overcome and you still need to board that flight to a meeting in an exotic and far-flung location, there are a few measures you can take to help reduce the impact.
Choosing the right vehicle for the job makes a big difference in improving overall fuel efficiency and safety, and reducing environmental impacts. But making sense of the various sources of data on vehicles can make this a difficult job. The GreenFleet Vehicle Procurement Tool enables all vehicle buyers to compare their potential choices by bringing together the variety of vehicle information sources such as Rightcar and manufacturers' own data, to give an 'apples-with-apples' comparison.
Join Now
GreenFleet plants trees to help offset vehicle emissions based on on how many vehicles you have, how big they are and how far they are driven each year. For more information on tree planting click here. To Join GreenFleet, click the button below.
Events
The aim is simple: to get every bike in Auckland that is not working out of garages, storage etc to get fixed up and on the road.
10 October 2010 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
For more information, contact GreenFleet or Cycle Action Auckland
The search for New Zealand's best bike lane, most effective promotion, and most cycle-friendly employer is on. The Cycling Advocates’ Network is inviting entries for the ASB Cycle Friendly Awards 2010.
GreenFleet Sponsors
Contact Us
Phone
DDI: 09 826 0954
Mobile: 021 646092
Email: greenfleet@sustainable.org.nz
Postal
PO Box 15677
New Lynn, Waitakere, 0640 NZ
Physical
Level 1
3067 Great North Road,
New Lynn, Waitakere, NZ
Click here for a map
OECD & ITF report on reducing transport emissions
A working group set up by the OECD and International Transport Forum has produced a report highlighting what it believes are the most efficient ways for the transport sector to address greenhouse gas emissions.
 sm.jpg)
Among the findings, the working group highlighted a number of areas where significant GHG emission reductions can be made.
- Although the largest overall cuts in GHG emissions are to be expected in the energy, residential and commercial buildings sectors, many mitigation measures in the transport sector are relatively low cost. Some of these save money in the long run, through fuel savings.
- Differentiated vehicle registration or purchase taxes and feebate schemes can further guide consumer demand for fuel efficient vehicles.
- Low carbon fuels will make a contribution to GHG emissions mitigation, albeit modest. Volumetric biofuel production quotas are an inefficient way to promote low‐carbon‐fuel switching and may not even deliver CO2 savings unless they are linked to effective sustainability criteria and fuel carbon standards.
- Improvements in traditional and hybridised internal combustion engine technology will continue to deliver the greatest source of GHG reduction from vehicles in the short‐ to medium‐term.
- Electrification of mobility will play a growing role over the longer term though hurdles relating to battery costs, vehicle range and energy distribution will need to be overcome.
- Better traffic management has the potential to deliver significant CO2 reductions, reducing the incidence of stop‐go traffic and discouraging excessive speed.
- Mobility management initiatives, land‐use planning and promotion of high quality public
transport can all help to reduce GHG emissions.
The full preliminary report can be read here:
News
Green energy systems are no longer just a ‘nice to have’ but are essential in securing our energy supply and protecting the environment, according to a new report from Lloyd’s 360 Risk Insight and UK think tank Chatham House.
As cities like Auckland grapple with ever increasing demand for road space, places like Barcelona are working to to spread the road space around different modes.
Honda have announced the CR-Z hybrid coupé, signalling that Honda is about to change how the world views hybrid technology.
SBN's Carbon4Good tree planting programme is now w
A study from the UK has reavealed stagnant water in your washer fluid reservoir might be a breeding ground for legionella.
Toyota are teaming up with Massey University to trial its new Plug-in Hybrid technology.
It’s a city of bicycles, 9 million to be exact as you can be. While China's driver population is growing at the rate of 4 million new drivers per year, the common bike is still a significant part of day-to-day getting about in Beijing.
North Shore based publisher Hachette has extended their tree planting programme to include offsetting for flights.
For many people, cycling and work don't usually go together. SBN member Stephen McKernan runs a successful consultancy business and is an avid cyclist. For Stephen, cycling is part of his business and the way he travels to most meetings.
Demand for oil in New Zealand could almost halve in the next 20 years because of more efficient cars, hybrid and electric vehicles and the use of biofuels, a report featured in the NZ Herald indicates.