Tag - CO2
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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August18
Transportation and Climate Change
Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 17:55 :: Transportation and climate change
For more information on COP 15, Climate Change and Transportation check the Q&A.
"Given the role that transport plays in causing greenhouse gas emissions, any serious action on climate change will zoom in on the transport sector".
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary UNFCCC, Tokyo, January 2009
At the end of 2009 the new climate deal, the successor of the Kyoto Protocol, will be agreed upon during the United Nations Climate Change conference, entitled COP15, in Copenhagen, Denmark (7 (...)
"Given the role that transport plays in causing greenhouse gas emissions, any serious action on climate change will zoom in on the transport sector".
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary UNFCCC, Tokyo, January 2009
At the end of 2009 the new climate deal, the successor of the Kyoto Protocol, will be agreed upon during the United Nations Climate Change conference, entitled COP15, in Copenhagen, Denmark (7 (...)
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June20
Check your emissions!
Saturday 20 June 2009 at 09:18 :: Transportation and climate change
Making the environmental choice
Check the emissions of your travel and the travel of the products you buy in the best possible way! EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT are two user-friendly internet tools to compare the energy consumption, CO2- and exhaust atmospheric emissions for planes, cars and trains (and trucks) in Europe. With "the best possible way" we mean the most fair and comprehensive way. The methodology behind the calculations are sound scientific, focusing on a life cycle approach (...)
Check the emissions of your travel and the travel of the products you buy in the best possible way! EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT are two user-friendly internet tools to compare the energy consumption, CO2- and exhaust atmospheric emissions for planes, cars and trains (and trucks) in Europe. With "the best possible way" we mean the most fair and comprehensive way. The methodology behind the calculations are sound scientific, focusing on a life cycle approach (...)
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December1
The UIC Kyoto Seminar
Tuesday 1 December 2009 at 07:13 :: What is going on?
On 5th and 6th November the UIC Asia Environment Conference took place in the International Conference Center of Kyoto, exactly the place where 12 years ago at the United Nations Climate Change Conference the first global CO2 reduction agreement has been agreed upon, known as the “Kyoto Protocol”.
At this honorable place of history the railway message towards the COP 15 climate change conference in Copenhagen has been signed by the participants of the conference and will be transferred by the (...)
At this honorable place of history the railway message towards the COP 15 climate change conference in Copenhagen has been signed by the participants of the conference and will be transferred by 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
Background Ecopassenger and Eco-Transit
Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 18:57 :: Others
EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT are fed with the best available data for all modes, and developed in cooperation with Ifeu (the German Institute for Environment and Energy) and technical providers of European routing systems and software, Hacon and IVEmbH (routing system and software)
EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT include rail data from the new UIC energy and CO2-data base. EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT do not only calculate the energy or the fuel it takes to run the train, car or the plane. The (...)
EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT include rail data from the new UIC energy and CO2-data base. EcoPassenger and EcoTransIT do not only calculate the energy or the fuel it takes to run the train, car or the plane. The (...)
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December5
What kind of present will Copenhagen give the world this Christmas?
Saturday 5 December 2009 at 22:42 :: The Kyoto to Copenhagen journey
It was time to wrap up. Time to bring the days discussions to a formal conclusion - although there was still a couple of hours left before we arrived in Copenhagen. The panel was made up of Achim Steiner from UNEP, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux from UIC, Nicole Wilke from the German Ministry for the Environment and Jason Anderson, WWF International.
We heard how Copenhagen had to achieve new mechanisms for CO2 reduction, as well as setting high targets and agreeing how the transition to a low (...)
We heard how Copenhagen had to achieve new mechanisms for CO2 reduction, as well as setting high targets and agreeing how the transition to a low (...)
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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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