Tag - global warming
December4
They took the train to Copenhagen!
Friday 4 December 2009 at 20:48 :: Others
On 5 December, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General of the International Union of Railways (UIC), the initiator of this special train, together with Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and James P. Leape, Director General of WWF hosted more than 400 high level EcoPassengers: climate change negotiators, rail business leaders, environmental activists, journalists and a group of Young Climate Champions on board of the Climate Express taking (...)
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November27
Running Railways on Renewables
Friday 27 November 2009 at 13:26 :: The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
In an article called a Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030 published in Scientific American this November the authors show how wind, water and solar technologies can provide all of the world’s energy, eliminating all fossil fuels.
Railway companies use large quantities of energy. Some companies generate their own energy and almost all railways organisations have the power to influence their energy mix due to being major purchasers of energy. In some countries it is also possible to opt for (...)
Railway companies use large quantities of energy. Some companies generate their own energy and almost all railways organisations have the power to influence their energy mix due to being major purchasers of energy. In some countries it is also possible to opt for (...)
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August7
What is the train to Copenhagen?
Friday 7 August 2009 at 16:47 :: What is it?
Take the train to the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen
The Train to Copenhagen team has one goal: bringing people to Copenhagen and bringing COP15 to the people. Taking the train is part of the solution in combating global warming. Trains are the most environmentally friendly mode of transport, so why would you travel by any other means to the one event in 2009 that can make a difference to the planet’s future? The International Union of Railways (UIC) and its (...)
The Train to Copenhagen team has one goal: bringing people to Copenhagen and bringing COP15 to the people. Taking the train is part of the solution in combating global warming. Trains are the most environmentally friendly mode of transport, so why would you travel by any other means to the one event in 2009 that can make a difference to the planet’s future? The International Union of Railways (UIC) and its (...)
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June17
Background information
Wednesday 17 June 2009 at 11:12 :: What is it?
In the following articles and reports you can find more information on Transportation and Climate Change
Links: Bridging the Gap
Links: Bridging the Gap
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November23
From Kyoto to Copenhagen
Monday 23 November 2009 at 13:55 :: What is going on?
The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey BLOG
The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
In November 2009 a team of environmental experts, NGOs and journalist has boarded the Trans Siberian Express in Vladivostok. The trip is a key part of the Train to Copenhagen project and is organised by the Russian Railways (RZD http://eng.rzd.ru/). RZD planned different stops, at Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Novgorod and the team will end their journey in Moscow 10 days later. Each stop is giving the team the (...)
The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
In November 2009 a team of environmental experts, NGOs and journalist has boarded the Trans Siberian Express in Vladivostok. The trip is a key part of the Train to Copenhagen project and is organised by the Russian Railways (RZD http://eng.rzd.ru/). RZD planned different stops, at Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Novgorod and the team will end their journey in Moscow 10 days later. Each stop is giving the team the (...)
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June18
Q & A
Thursday 18 June 2009 at 15:37 :: Transportation and climate change
What is the Copenhagen climate change summit? From December 7 and two weeks forward high level representatives including ministers and state leaders will meet in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate conference to develop a successor to the Kyoto protocol. The talks are the latest in an annual series of UN meetings that trace their origins to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which aimed at coordinating international action against climate
What is climate change? Climate change is (...)
What is climate change? Climate change is (...)
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August18
Climate Express
Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 19:04 :: What is going on?
For the occasion, a special train will run between Brussels and Copenhagen.
Departure is planned for 5th December, 9.10, from Brussels Midi. So be ready! The “Climate Express” will be supplemented by feeder connections from major European cities and by trains offered to the national delegation by the Railways. Don’t forget to visit the websites of our participating members to check the trains. The train, calling at Cologne and Hamburg, will be the platform for a large number of on-board (...)
Departure is planned for 5th December, 9.10, from Brussels Midi. So be ready! The “Climate Express” will be supplemented by feeder connections from major European cities and by trains offered to the national delegation by the Railways. Don’t forget to visit the websites of our participating members to check the trains. The train, calling at Cologne and Hamburg, will be the platform for a large number of on-board (...)
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November24
Fresh or smoked fish for breakfast?
Tuesday 24 November 2009 at 09:45 :: The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
Fresh or smoked fish for breakfast?
After three days on the train our first chance for a serious change of diet.
Suddenly the view opens up and there on our right lies Lake Baikal. Today its waters are a deep steely grey and ice fringes the shore-line. To our left are the granite (basalt?) cliffs that had to be dynamited back in 1901 to cut a way through for the railway.
The lake conceals a massive rift created as one tectonic plate drifts north-west and the one we are on drifts south-east. (...)
After three days on the train our first chance for a serious change of diet.
Suddenly the view opens up and there on our right lies Lake Baikal. Today its waters are a deep steely grey and ice fringes the shore-line. To our left are the granite (basalt?) cliffs that had to be dynamited back in 1901 to cut a way through for the railway.
The lake conceals a massive rift created as one tectonic plate drifts north-west and the one we are on drifts south-east. (...)
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November22
Jellyfish sea
Sunday 22 November 2009 at 07:17 :: The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
We visited a seafood market in Japan. There was a tremendous variety of products presented and packaged with incredible care. Much of this is caught in the Japanese sea by flotillas of ships fishing day and night in fleets of a hundred or more boats.
But this variety is under threat. We learnt in Japan that the sea of Japan has changed and now grows more and more jellyfish - jellyfish that fill the fishermen’s nets and damage fish stocks with their toxic sting.
We were not able to find (...)
But this variety is under threat. We learnt in Japan that the sea of Japan has changed and now grows more and more jellyfish - jellyfish that fill the fishermen’s nets and damage fish stocks with their toxic sting.
We were not able to find (...)
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December5
On the climate express - Brussels to Cologne
Saturday 5 December 2009 at 13:40 :: The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
The conversation has started. Press conferences block the route from one end to the other. A journalist crouches speaking live to her radio station. I push my way through to meet one of my hero’s - Mark Smith - founder of the website - the man in seat 61. This website is a fantastic source of information for travelling by rail across Europe.
I asked Mark - an Englishman - why he set up the web-site. He said, "When I travel to Europe I always take the train. Eurostar will tell you how to (...)
I asked Mark - an Englishman - why he set up the web-site. He said, "When I travel to Europe I always take the train. Eurostar will tell you how to (...)
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