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Train revival needed to meet EU climate goals
By EUobserver
The EU should revive a 1960s railway-building project called 'Trans Europe Express' to curb emissions from short-distance flights if the bloc is to meet its global warming targets, according to a German-funded report by four NGOs Wednesday. Flights of fewer than 1,000 km inside Europe emitted 28 tonnes of CO2/year, but "almost all of these journeys could be shifted to rail," which now accounted for just 8 percent of journeys.