6th Global Partnership meeting endorses vibrant work programme

The 6th Global Partnership meeting of the PCFV (6GPM) took place In Beijing on 10-11 April, 2008 with 30 member organizations and 3 observer organizations, participating.

Hosted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (MEP), the meeting had vibrant and interactive discussions as members looked back over the 5 years since inception assessing PCFV successes, strengths and lessons learnt.

A new and active program of work for the new biennium, 2008/09 was approved that saw expansion of clean vehicle work into new activity areas, while completing the successful lead phase-out campaign by 2008 as targeted.

Partners agreed on the existence of co-benefits as a result of the PCFV Work on fuel efficiency, and while the primary focus remains on clean Fuels and vehicles, the link between a better environment due to the efficiency of cars was acknowledged. The C-H was mandated to document fuel and vehicle efficiency co-benefits.

A new Advisory Group was nominated and CAI-Asia joined 11 member Group, a majority of whom were retained.

[see 6GPM Summary Report, meeting presentations & photo gallery on http://www.unep.org/pcfv/meetings/6GPM.asp].