Thursday 17/12 morning the Swiss delegation for COP 15 arrived safely at the main station, Hovedbanegaarden, in Copenhagen.
80 people travelled together by train from Switzerland to Copenhagen, including the Swiss delegation arriving for the high-level segment of COP 15. The participants of the train were welcomed with breakfast at the station by the Danish Railways.
The journey had included meetings and conferences and obviously a good night of sleep because the participants seemed (...)

Having arrived safely in Copenhagen and at the United Nations Climate Change conference, it is time to share the 7th story of love from the Trans-Siberian railways. It is about the love we share for our planet.
You might have wondered what the collecting love stories on the Trans-Siberian Railways line during the symbolic Kyoto – Copenhagen journey had to do with climate change. The answer is short – everything!
While collecting messages from people to the decision makers at COP 15 in (...)

It’s Tom’s job to capture the climate express in cartoons, diagrams and drawings. He’s part of a group called Bigger Picture who specialise in capturing events in graphic form - graphic recording - and today they are on the train.
I asked him how they manage to capture such complex ideas and so much activity.
Tom said, "We try to be as open as we can, to just observe. Sometimes we ask questions. I just asked Mr. Pepy (SNCF) and asked him about his vision - what he would ideally like - for (...)

The train is under way. We are welcomed by Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, UIC Director General and then it is straight into the first conference - Updating Climate Science.
Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele of IPPC, Achim Steiner form UNEP and James P. Leape from WWF international give quick summaries of the science and then the questions begin.
Soon the questions move beyond science into politics and policy. There is an intensity and purpose to the questions. Nobody is pulling in punches, but (...)

The stations and the station buildings along the Trans-Siberian Railway line are worth the journey in themselves.
The stations along the Trans-Siberian are Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Ruzhino, Vyazemskaya (Vyazemsky), Khabarovsk-1, Arkhara, Belogorsk, Skovorodino, Mogocha, Chernyshevsk-Zabaikalsky (Chernyshevsk), Karymskaya (Karymskoye), Chita-2, Petrovsky Zavod/Zabaikalsky, Petrovsk, Ulan-Ude, Slyudyanka-1, Irkutsk-Passenger, Zima, Nizhneudinsk, Taishet, Ilanskaya (Ilansky), Krasnoyarsk, (...)