Planet TIGER» More than 400 EcoPassengers travelled with the Climate Express from Brussels to Copenhagen to visit the Climate Change Conference http://www.planettiger.com Eco and the Environment Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 More than 400 EcoPassengers travelled with the Climate Express from Brussels to Copenhagen to visit the Climate Change Conference. http://www.planettiger.com/climate changs/2009/12/06/more-than-400-ecopassengers-travelled-with-the-climate-express-from-brussels-to-copenhagen-to-visit-the-climate-change-conference-post_id%/001 http://www.planettiger.com/climate changs/2009/12/06/more-than-400-ecopassengers-travelled-with-the-climate-express-from-brussels-to-copenhagen-to-visit-the-climate-change-conference-post_id%/001#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:56:07 +0000 admin http://www.planettiger.com/?p=69

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On 5 December, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General of the International Union of Railways (UIC), the initiator of this special train, together with Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and James P. Leape, Director General of WWF hosted more than 400 high level EcoPassengers: climate change negotiators, rail business leaders, environmental activists, journalists and a group of Young Climate Champions on board of the Climate Express taking them to COP 15 in Copenhagen.

The Climate Express is part Train to Copenhagen’ campaign aiming to support and encourage decision-makers to delivering a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the first international effort to cut green house gas emissions. Its purpose is also to send out the message that the next-generation climate agreement and its supporting policies and procedures need to address the transport sector’s growing emissions

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