{"id":493,"date":"2014-08-20T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=493"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:49:58","slug":"railways-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Railways and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-496\" alt=\"invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264\" src=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264-728x1024.jpg 728w, http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264-624x877.jpg 624w, http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/invest-in-our-planet-20140814-064711264.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday 19 August, we joined forces our friends from \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.us3.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=59713db9cc4ce485b097f75ba&amp;id=ca8b231566&amp;e=03904889bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Action For Rail<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=59713db9cc4ce485b097f75ba&amp;id=6e6fb4116c&amp;e=03904889bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bring Back British Rail<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=59713db9cc4ce485b097f75ba&amp;id=6ba56b7c2d&amp;e=03904889bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Own It<\/a>,\u00a0 the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaigncc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campaign against Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0and the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=59713db9cc4ce485b097f75ba&amp;id=7baa7a4925&amp;e=03904889bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All on Board<\/a>\u00a0campaign to protest against rail price increases increases in the New Year. Hence about 15 of us handed out leaflets at Derby railway station, and the same thing happened at more that 60 stations. Our protest was shown on BBC Midlands TV, and Nadine Rae, from the railway union the TSSA, was interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>We also displayed the above A2 p<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">oster which has been produced by the TSSA in conjunction with the Campaign against Climate Change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The message, as you can see, is that in order to combat global warming \u00a0it is necessary to invest in railways. \u00a085% of global CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0transport emissions \u00a0come from cars, planes and trucks. \u00a0Planes produce eight to eleven times the CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0of high speed rail and lorries emit about six times more CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0than trains for every ton carried. Radical improvement to the rail services are required if we are going to replace air and road travel.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of this poster are available; all you have to do is email us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 19 August, we joined forces our friends from \u00a0Action For Rail, \u00a0Bring Back British Rail,\u00a0We Own It,\u00a0 the\u00a0Campaign against Climate Change\u00a0and the new\u00a0All on Board\u00a0campaign to protest against rail price increases increases in the New Year. Hence about 15 of us handed out leaflets at Derby railway station, and the same thing happened &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Railways and climate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}