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Global Briefing: China unveils long-awaited carbon trading market
Global Briefing: China unveils long-awaited carbon trading market

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push

  • Energy
  • 08 January 2021
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26

Train to be developed by retrofitting an old passenger car with hydrogen fuel cell technology over the coming months, in the hope the model can feature at the COP26 climate conference set to be held in the autumn in Glasgow, according to project lead...

  • Rail
  • 05 January 2021
Green groups slam £1bn cut to UK rail infrastructure budget
Green groups slam £1bn cut to UK rail infrastructure budget

Government confirms plans to cut rail enhancement budget by over £1bn, drawing critical comparison to £27bn roads spending

  • Rail
  • 04 December 2020
Backtracking: More rail projects awarded funding through Beeching cuts reversal programme
Backtracking: More rail projects awarded funding through Beeching cuts reversal programme

Department for Transport announces second round of winners from the 'ideas fund' for its Restoring Your Railway Fund, geared at resuscitating mothballed railway lines and stations

  • Rail
  • 27 November 2020
Solar-powered railway scheme steams ahead with £2.5m government grant
Solar-powered railway scheme steams ahead with £2.5m government grant

Riding Sunbeams project aims to shuttle power from a community solar plant to the London to Eastbourne railway line

  • Rail
  • 23 November 2020
Intrepid Travel touts flight-free trips in science-based climate plan
Intrepid Travel touts flight-free trips in science-based climate plan

Tour operator becomes first in the world to have its climate goals verified by the Science Based Targets initiative

  • Rail
  • 28 October 2020
All aboard: UK's first hydrogen train rolls onto the tracks in Warwickshire
All aboard: UK's first hydrogen train rolls onto the tracks in Warwickshire

Trials of the zero carbon HydroFLEX train kick off today in the Midlands as part of a government-backed project

  • Rail
  • 30 September 2020
Next stop hydrogen for new rail project
Next stop hydrogen for new rail project

Three British companies unite to develop new hydrogen fuelling infrastructure that could soon allow for the roll out of zero emission trains on the UK rail network

  • BusinessGreen
  • 21 September 2020
Global Briefing: China mulls carbon neutrality
Global Briefing: China mulls carbon neutrality

All the latest green business news from around the world

  • Management
  • 18 September 2020
Tesco steps up rail investment plans
Tesco steps up rail investment plans

Rail Minister hails corporate backing for efforts to shift freight off the roads and onto the rails

  • Rail
  • 15 September 2020
Climate change will cause more landslips, Stonehaven crash report warns
Climate change will cause more landslips, Stonehaven crash report warns

Interim report on fatal crash warns climate impacts on the rail network are "accelerating faster than our assumptions"

  • Risk
  • 14 September 2020
'Now is the moment': Alstom reveals how the UK could pull ahead on hydrogen
'Now is the moment': Alstom reveals how the UK could pull ahead on hydrogen

BusinessGreen sits down with Nick Crossfield, managing director of Alstom UK and Ireland, to discuss why hydrogen could hold the key to decarbonising the UK's railway network by the government's 2040 deadline

  • Rail
  • 14 September 2020
Global Briefing: Democrats eye 2050 net zero goal for US
Global Briefing: Democrats eye 2050 net zero goal for US

Plus Indian Railways aim for net zero, Norway CCS plans, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

  • Rail
  • 24 July 2020
TfL eyes renewables contracts to power London's Tube network
TfL eyes renewables contracts to power London's Tube network

City Hall unveils plans to scope out market for Power Purchase Agreements to meet Underground's electricity demand

  • Energy
  • 17 July 2020
Hitachi rolls forward with plans for UK battery trains
Hitachi rolls forward with plans for UK battery trains

Hitachi Rail and Hyperdrive team up in support of plans to create a battery hub in the North East

  • Transport
  • 06 July 2020
Greener railways: Hydrogen trains and 5G WiFi take share of £9.4m funding pot
Greener railways: Hydrogen trains and 5G WiFi take share of £9.4m funding pot

Department for Transport announces winners of rail innovation funding competition as industry urges for more support for hydrogen trains

  • Policy
  • 17 June 2020
HS2 will be one of the UK's cleanest, greenest forms of transport
HS2 will be one of the UK's cleanest, greenest forms of transport

Transport Minister Andrew Stephenson MP sets out his case for HS2, promising it will be 'one of our cleanest, greenest, and most-environmentally sustainable forms of transport'

  • Rail
  • 05 June 2020
Research: Covid-19 to accelerate global shift from planes to trains in 2020s
Research: Covid-19 to accelerate global shift from planes to trains in 2020s

Pandemic set to curb air travel growth 10 per cent over next decade as high speed rail flourishes, UBS analysis suggests

  • Aviation
  • 14 April 2020
Rail electrification is critical for net zero - and it can be delivered cost effectively
Rail electrification is critical for net zero - and it can be delivered cost effectively

Rail electrification would bring many benefits and doesn't have to be expensive, argues Lib Dem transport spokesperson Baroness Randerson

  • Rail
  • 21 February 2020
'We are going to get this done': Government gives entire HS2 project green light
'We are going to get this done': Government gives entire HS2 project green light

Prime Minister concedes costs have spiralled but argues 'poor management has not detracted from the fundamental value of the project'

  • Policy
  • 11 February 2020
Eurostar takes on airlines with direct London to Amsterdam trains
Eurostar takes on airlines with direct London to Amsterdam trains

Channel Tunnel service claims CO2 from new direct high-speed rail link between UK and Dutch capitals is 80 per cent lower than flight

  • Rail
  • 07 February 2020
Qantas Airways targets net zero carbon by 2050
Qantas Airways targets net zero carbon by 2050

Firm to double number of offset flights and invest $50m in sustainable aviation fuels over next decade, as BA promises to review controversial fueling practice

  • Aviation
  • 11 November 2019
All aboard: Inside Hitachi's vision for a zero carbon battery-powered UK rail network
All aboard: Inside Hitachi's vision for a zero carbon battery-powered UK rail network

Koji Agatsuma, engineering director at Hitachi Rail Europe, argues battery trains could offer the UK a flexible, no-regrets transition to a net zero rail network

  • Rail
  • 08 October 2019
Bombardier inks €100m deal with Leclanché to energise battery-powered trains vision
Bombardier inks €100m deal with Leclanché to energise battery-powered trains vision

Tie-up will see first battery-powered trains hit the UK in a boost to government efforts to deliver greener rail travel

  • Rail
  • 02 October 2019
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