Europe has a new solution to cut air-travel emissions: sleeper trains

European Sleeper’s Berlin-to-Brussels night train is one of a host of emerging routes that could help Europe bring down air-travel emissions. Take a look at the experience.

For the past several decades, it’s been wildly easy—and affordable—to fly from one European city to another. But across the continent, governments are pushing back by investing in rail travel as a low-carbon alternative. France, for example, is pouring $110 billion into its trains by 2040 and recently banned shorter domestic flights between cities where there is rail service. “A really large level of investment is required to improve the service and coverage” throughout Europe, says Gonzalo Cantabrana Fernández, sector lead for infrastructure and project finance for Europe and the Middle East at S&P Global.

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