Features Editor Kevin Smith assesses what the international carbon reduction agreement signed by 196 countries in Paris in December 2015 will mean for future rail policy. “With rail accounting for 9% of all transport and 3% of all transport greenhouse gas emissions, it has long been considered as a green mode of transport. Yet recognition at United Nations events of the role that rail can play in combatting climate change has not always been forthcoming,” he says.
- We've read it in: January 2016, p6