Tag: mobility
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Railway’s Essential Digitalisation
Demand for transport is set to double by 2050. Favouring high-speed rail over short-distance air or road travel is essential to alleviate the transport sector’s energy intensity and curb emissions increase. In France, transportation produces 30% of total emissions, but rail represents only a marginal 0.6%. Rail is already the most electrified mode of transport…
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Aviation’s carbon footprint – why Europe will push for a kerosene tax
An opportune moment – EU reconfiguration Environmental preoccupation is at the centre stage of European policy like never before. It fragmented the European Parliament on May 26th and has left unclear who will take on the presidency of the Commission. Many agree that Europe must sustain its global leadership on climate, while enhancing its action.…
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