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SWOMM 2011 – Railways, Mountains and Environment
Railways companies discussing further improvements of the Alpine transport Rome, 13 December 2011 – The issue of traffic flows in mountain areas and, in particular, in the Alps, goes beyond national borders and needs to be thought again with a view to sustainable development and international cooperation. The Kyoto Protocol and the recent developments occurred in... »
Finland plans to build the first green highway
Finland has recently unveiled the plan to build the world’s first “green highway”, which would be endowed with electric charge stations and pumps filled with local biofuels. In charge of the project is the town of Loviisa, at the east of Helsinki. The highway, intended to be carbon neutral, thanks to these facilities would hopefully... »
Fostering the institutional cooperation between Balkan countries structures and Member States in transports
The SEETAC (South East European Transport Axis Cooperation) project was officially approved in April 2009 and will last until March 2012. The project is funded under the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme and it involves 17 partners – Ministries for Transport and Infrastructure of Austria, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Croatia, former... »
Transport in the Carpathian Mountains – UNEP
Sandei, from UNEP, provided a general outlook on the main features of the transport system within the Carpathians, during its presentation at the SWOMM Side Event at CSD18. Representing one of the Europe’s largest mountain ranges, the Carpathians are an area of outstanding ecological value, inhabited by 20 millions of people sharing a peculiar... »