04:11More than 200 environmental activists embarked on a climate train at Amsterdam's main station on Saturday.
In total, more than 500 people from 40 different countries will be traveling with the train to highlight the need for more sustainable travel.
Railway companies from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands such as Avanti West Coast, Eurostar, NS, and ProRail joined forces with Youth for Sustainable Travel, a European organisation promoting sustainable travel through trains.
"We need better international connections, we need faster trains so more people will actually choose to train as an alternative to flying because that can just save a lot of the emissions. We know that we can't keep on growing the aviation industry at the pace that we've been doing the last years," explained project volunteer Tiem van der Deure.
The train, a Eurostar e320, will head to Brussels next on its way to the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
Netherlands: Environmental activists head to COP26 on a ‘climate train’
More than 200 environmental activists embarked on a climate train at Amsterdam's main station on Saturday.
In total, more than 500 people from 40 different countries will be traveling with the train to highlight the need for more sustainable travel.
Railway companies from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands such as Avanti West Coast, Eurostar, NS, and ProRail joined forces with Youth for Sustainable Travel, a European organisation promoting sustainable travel through trains.
"We need better international connections, we need faster trains so more people will actually choose to train as an alternative to flying because that can just save a lot of the emissions. We know that we can't keep on growing the aviation industry at the pace that we've been doing the last years," explained project volunteer Tiem van der Deure.
The train, a Eurostar e320, will head to Brussels next on its way to the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
More than 200 environmental activists embarked on a climate train at Amsterdam's main station on Saturday.
In total, more than 500 people from 40 different countries will be traveling with the train to highlight the need for more sustainable travel.
Railway companies from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands such as Avanti West Coast, Eurostar, NS, and ProRail joined forces with Youth for Sustainable Travel, a European organisation promoting sustainable travel through trains.
"We need better international connections, we need faster trains so more people will actually choose to train as an alternative to flying because that can just save a lot of the emissions. We know that we can't keep on growing the aviation industry at the pace that we've been doing the last years," explained project volunteer Tiem van der Deure.
The train, a Eurostar e320, will head to Brussels next on its way to the COP26 summit in Glasgow.