ETA: Green Transport Week 16-24 June 2007

Environmental Transport Association calls for action in its 15th year

Green Transport Week will run again this June, motivating people across Britain to think about and take action to reduce the impact of transport on our environment. In its 15th year of Green Transport Week (GTW) organisers the ETA (Environmental Transport Association) again calls on businesses, large and small, for local authorities and private individuals to make changes in their everyday use of transport to lessen the impact on our environment.

Andrew Davis, director of the ETA and founder of GTW is delighted that there is a discernable change in the public perception of the causes of damage to the environment in the 15 years since GTW started, but says there is much more to do “We need everyone to make changes to their lifestyle if the disastrous predictions made by scientists about the consequences of global warming are to be prevented. The ETA will be celebrating those groups and individuals who make this extra effort this June by publicising the events and activities on our website. We want people to tell us what they plan to do this year so we can champion the best ideas. Quite often the smallest campaigns results in a big effect of a local community and the quality of life for the individuals who live there”

First launched by the ETA as one of their leading campaigning initiatives in 1992, its aim then, as it still is today, an annual platform for promoting alternative methods of transportation, thorough a range of activities. Not just about global warming GTW also highlights all the other aspects of life that are affected by our use of transport.

“It is not too late to join in.” continues Andrew Davis, “You can use GTW as a national banner to publicise your campaign or as a stimulus to get some action in a transport issue that’s affecting your community. Anyone can be involved GTW – visit the website for more information or start something up yourself and let us know about it.”

In 1994 just one school in Hertfordshire held a ‘walk to school’ event and now this activity has been adopted world wide. In its fourth year, 1996, GTW was already attracting over three million people who took part in a great range of activities. Bus companies began to offer free bus tickets during the week. Companies offered a free breakfast to any one not using a car to get to work. Local radio stations offered prizes to people who went to work using a different type of transport everyday. Bath and Worcester were the first cities to close streets to vehicle traffic for part of the week and Car Free Day is now an international event.


Green Transport Week takes place around Britain from 16-24 June 2006.
Visit www.greentransportweek.co.uk for more information and a list of participants.

For more information go to www.eta.co.uk


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Notes to Editors
• The ETA is the world’s only climate neutral motoring organisation
• Climate neutralising projects include – restoring rainforests, providing energy-saving light bulbs and providing stoves that run on crop waste.
• Levels of C02 have risen by a third since industrial times and are expected to double in the next hundred years
• The Kyoto Protocol signed by 141 countries and accounting for 55% of greenhouse gas emissions has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 5.2% by 2012
• The Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that we need to reduce emissions by much more – to 60% of 1990 levels
• ETA breakdown cover from £39 online is climate neutral (carbon emissions from breakdown vehicles offset)
• ETA breakdown cover with carbon offset for a years driving from £89 online at www.eta.co.uk
• The aim of the ETA is to be the ethical alternative to other motoring organisations by providing high quality services to everyone concerned about the impact of transport on the environment; in so doing, funds are generated for the ETA’s campaigns.