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A string of terrible climate-related disasters, a significant environmental Problem for many people, the New Year .

Many of you have chosen to reduce your carbon footprint by flying less, or cutting, is the aircraft completely. Flygskam - the Swedish word for "flight of shame" - has become commonplace.

In August, Swedish Climate Change activists.

If you had The Return trip from England to New York by air, you would 11% of the average annual emissions emitted, for someone who is causing in the UK, or the sum of someone's life in Ghana for a Year .

The air traffic contributes with about 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions according to The International air Transport Association (IATA), and this is predicted to rise.

More Than that, but in Europe, where cheap air travel reigns, it's not a simple decision.

Some governments are Getting On Board flygskam and introduction of measures for the promotion of the railway.

last week, Germany announced it would cut long-distance traffic tariffs by 10% - The First price fall for 17 years

Austria's new green/conservative coalition has promised the expansion of the rail network and increase the tax on Flights , which is a step in the direction of achieving their goal of climate neutral by the Year 2040.

Many of Europe's Night Trains were to be abolished, but in Sweden, plans for the re-introduction of the sleeper service on the European mainland.

And this summer, Luxembourg is The First country to have all Public Transport free in an attempt to the congestion in the cities.

Why don't you take a long train journey when you can fly?

train travel may take longer, but converts say it's a far greater profit than the fly.

As for Elijah, lives in Vienna, Austria, finished school, and he was desperate to travel around South-East Asia. However, with his environmental conscience held him book a flight.

Instead, the 19-Year -old and his girlfriend traveled to Vietnam by land.

"It was The Most exciting experience I've ever had in My Life ," says Elias .

Elias spent for 16 days to Vietnam from Austria

The couple traveled from Vienna to Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China before arriving in Hanoi. You sleep on Night Trains , then in the morning, left Luggage at The Train station and spent The Day running around, what city you are in, before returning on Board another sleeper.

Elias said he met more people during this 16-day journey across the whole four-and-a-half months he spent traveling around South-East Asia.

"In the trains, people have time, you really want to meet you," he said. "In hostels, which are always tourists. "

It is a romantic vision of a vacation, but only if you have no obligations to be a boy?

" Not necessarily. Mary Penman, who is British, but lives in Austria, makes The Train journey back to the UK, at least once in the Year with her husband and two small children. She stopped flying a few years as a result of the flygskam.

Mary says, your family will enjoy, break the trip with a walk around a city while you wait for your train

" From Vienna, The Family comes with the Night Train to Cologne And Then to Brussels, where the Eurostar to London. Mary says, it takes Two Days and costs about €117 (£100, $130) One Way if booked in advance, - €200, with a shorter period of time.

she admits that a long train journey with two small children in tow "complicated, but with children, even going to the shops is difficult". You preferred it to the claustrophobic stress of an airport.

And in many countries, children are under the age of six years travel free of charge.

in the Past Year , The Family went on holiday to Venice with The Train . Her older son spent the trip playing with children from other families on Board.

"It's like a rice village," says Maria. "There is a real camaraderie among the families on Board. "

Not a fair competition

Although many prefer to travel by train, the cost is often prohibitive. A Eurostar train from London to Paris emits up to 90% less carbon than flying, but a ticket usually costs twice as much.

customers who also travel between different countries, discouraged the planning of a railway. not to say,

"the people want time in the planning of your holiday" to you, Elias . To organize, "it is hard to expensive to travel by train within Europe. "

This was the reason why he and his father, Mathias, Set Up Traivelling, travel Agency, holiday, purely on the trains.

Traivelling offers a return train journey from London to Lisbon, at a price of 350€, but a quick look online budget brings Flights to €86. A single train ticket from Copenhagen to Rome costs €110, but some Flights are priced at less than€ 20.

Matthias, and Elias agree that it is difficult for trains to compete with flying in terms of price and frequency. Although there has been an increase in the high-speed trains, these are extremely expensive in comparison to The Hundreds of cheap Flights between the major airports Every Day .

"The offer is too good in comparison to the fullest," says Matthias.

< p > rethink

While cost and time are the main factors that seems to be it, aircraft are to replace trains, it requires a change in thinking.

causes Rather than chunking together in a two-week holiday, the increase in the budget of the air traffic, is an increase in shorter, more frequent breaks.

Some companies have encouraged their employees, with more carbon-friendly ways of travelling that take more time, by the introduction of a "climate benefits".

the women of the economy, a women's cooperative in Berlin, the said supports entrepreneurs, the workers, the Three Days of " additional leave, if you abstain from flying for a Year .

The Train journey is to say that a part of The Holiday , the Fans,

Elias 's father, Mathias remembers a time when it was normal to spend a few weeks traveling by train to Greece or France.

"We were forgotten brought up," he says. "We think now that the only way to have a good experience, putting you in a plane and go Somewhere far and Fast . "

Elias thinks that The Opposite is true.

"If you he says with The Train in Vietnam, you will begin to understand that The World is huge".

Mary says that while the trains, The Journey part of The Holiday , not just a way to take to get Somewhere , longer"".

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Source of news: bbc.com