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Elecnor short-listed for the future California high speed rail infrastructure project
Elecnor has been short-listed to take part in the Caltrain Modernization Program, involving the commuter rail service in California between San Francisco and San Jose. This is an ambitious project worth nearly USD 1.23 billion (approximately EUR 970 million) and scheduled to be implemented by 2019. Specifically, Elecnor, in a joint venture with Cobra, has been short-listed for the Peninsula ...
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Europe needs to steer transport policy in the right direction, says EEA
Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe's greenhouse gas emissions, poor air quality and noise; and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods. The findings are set out in the report 'Transport at a crossroads', launched today at the European Parliament in Brussels by Professor Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director, 'We know the technology exists to ...
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Transatlantic Plan to Cut Aircraft Emissions Lifts Off
LE BOURGET, France - Over the roar of planes at the Paris Air Show here, U.S. and European Union officials today announced a joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. In the presence of aircraft industry representatives, European Commission vice president responsible for transport Jacques Barrot and Marion Blakey, administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, ...
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The time for sustainable transport in Brazilian cities is now
This piece is cross-posted from TheCityFix and originally appeared on TheCityFix Brasil. Read this post in Portuguese here. Leaders from the world’s biggest cities convened in Sao Paulo earlier this month to find solutions to climate change during the fourth C40 São Paulo Summit. This is a critical time for mega-cities all over the world, not just for those in Brazil. All cities ...
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Tennant Company and City of Cologne Announce Agreement for the World’s First Lithium-ion Powered Zero Emissions Street Sweeper
Together with AWB Abfallwirtschaftsbetriebe Koeln GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne Provides an Innovative New Way to Make City Cleaning Quieter, Healthier and Greener MUNICH - Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC), a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer world, together with AWB Abfallwirtschaftsbetriebe Koeln GmbH & Co. KG, a wholly owned ...
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Euro MPs support congestion charges and road-pricing
The European Parliament has adopted an own-initiative report on sustainable European transport policy, which says that the problem of urban congestion, which causes 40% of CO2 emissions and 70% of other pollutant emissions from vehicles, needs to be tackled more ambitiously, by applying a Europe-wide cooperation and coordination strategy. MEPs say better exploitation of existing infrastructure, ...
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Improving environmental performance of road transport in Europe
Europe's road transport has made a clear contribution to economic growth, but its environmental performance is still unacceptable. Traffic congestion, poorer air quality, noise and in particular greenhouse gas emissions are some of the key challenges effectively addressed by six initiatives identified by the European Environment Agency as success stories. The report, 'Success stories within the ...
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