Rail
New £9m competition aims to put green train innovations on track
New Department for Transport initiative designed to support the development of clean rail demonstration projects
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
Global Briefing: China mulls carbon neutrality
All the latest green business news from around the world
Tesco steps up rail investment plans
Rail Minister hails corporate backing for efforts to shift freight off the roads and onto the rails
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"
'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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
'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'
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
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
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
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