Infrastructure Carbon Working Group
08/02/2024
The Infrastructure Carbon Working Group (ICWG) has been set up to deliver the net zero carbon rail element of the Sustainable Rail Blueprint (SRB). The group has a particular focus on two of the SRB’s strategic aims: net zero assets and net zero value chain.
"The ICWG brings together cross-industry expertise to work towards a common goal of decarbonising rail infrastructure management and projects. The group shares best practices in low-carbon solutions and contractual improvements, aimed at incentivising carbon reduction. It also aims to make carbon data management more accessible to everyone. Climate change remains the most significant threat to the world, as such our collective efforts are focused on driving the rail industry towards achieving the carbon targets outlined in the Sustainable Rail Blueprint."
Scope
The purpose of the ICWG is to:
- facilitate a consistent approach to assessing, managing, and reducing infrastructure carbon across rail.
- ensure industry-level work on decarbonisation informs, and is informed by, both wider sustainability strategy and wider infrastructure decarbonisation.
- provide an expert forum to discuss and advise on key issues concerning rail industry infrastructure decarbonisation.
Membership
The ICWG has members representing the following industry categories:
- passenger train operating companies
- freight operating companies
- infrastructure managers, including Network Rail
- rolling stock owning companies
- supply chain including rolling stock manufacturers and infrastructure contractors
- Department for Transport
- Transport Scotland
- Transport for Wales
- Office of Rail and Road (ORR)
- Great British Railways Transition Team.
Chair: Gareth Williams, TRU West
RSSB main representative: Ben Warren
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Group members
Name Company Representing Status Alex Hanson Department For Transport Government Member Ben Warren RSSB RSSB Member Clive Jones Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Manager Member David Clarke Railway Industry Association (RIA) RIA Member Gareth Williams TRU West Committee TRU West Hayley Warrens Transport for Wales Government Member Ioannis Mavvidis Department For Transport Government Observer James Ingram Transport For London (TFL) Government Member James Langstraat East West Railway Company Limited Passenger Train Operating Company Member Jonathan Howard Dura Composites Ltd Suppliers Member Keith Goss Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd Suppliers Member Kenneth Hills Skanska Suppliers Member Livia Morarasu RSSB RSSB IGM Mark Fenton High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Infrastructure Manager Member Martin Gregson C Spencer Ltd Suppliers Member Michael Shanks Balfour Beatty Rail Limited Infrastructure Contractor Member Noah Myers RSSB RSSB Member Robin Hay Railway Industry Association (RIA) RIA Member Sebastian Crisp Rail Delivery Group Passenger Train Operating Company Member
