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Giving used items a new lease of life
Our online platform DB Resale gives a new lease of life to many things. Even when materials and rail vehicles are no longer needed, we don't just dispose of them. Instead, our platform ensures they find a new home and a new purpose.
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We reward sustainability
We turn our customers into environmentalists by integrating a This is green.-category into our BahnBonus program. The available rewards are sustainable through and through.
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Our testing lab is always on track
The advanced TrainLab is our testing center on rails. This is where DB tests innovative technological solutions that will take our eco-friendly Strong Rail projects to the next level.
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Noise reduction
We load freight quietly and energy-efficiently
At our new MegaHub Lehrte, we use electricity-saving gantry cranes and battery-powered transporters to move goods quietly and energy-efficiently.
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Save on plastic and donate drinking water
We sell sustainable mineral water bottles from share in our trains. By doing so, we save on plastic and support the construction of drinking water wells worldwide.
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We’re making more room for climate protection
Partnering with the German Ministry for the Environment and city governments in Germany, DB is launching the Bike+Ride program to promote making the switch from cars to bikes. 100,000 more parking spots for bikes at rail stations will be added across Germany by the end of 2022.
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We like to provide a good climate on our trains
We like to provide a good climate on our trains. We are currently testing new air conditioning systems in our trains, which work with natural refrigerants and protect the environment.
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A lofty place to live
We provide rare birds with a place to live in a top location. Whether on depot premises or on land we have restored, our nesting boxes help us to support wildlife conservation.
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We won't let good food end up in the garbage
Whether it's lentil stew or chocolate brownies – we donate many items from our on-board catering to charitable organizations, to help the environment and those in need.
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Old and improved
Old and improved - we don't throw away old furniture from our office buildings or old information signs from our construction sites. Instead, we take an upcycling approach and give them a new lease on life.
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First aid for bikes
We offer first aid for bicycles with our new mobile repair stations. This service to get your bike fit again is free.
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Nature conservation
We need more insects
Our green sites provide us with solutions to sustainably manage our land. By running pilot projects, we are gathering the knowledge to equip us for this.
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Out of the printer, into the train
Our trains are made up of many individual components, many of which are unique. It often takes a lot of time and materials to keep small quantities of them available. We have found a solution to this in 3D printing, which enables us to work more efficiently and with fewer resources. In this computer-based procedure, the original component is first measured or scanned and then converted to digital data. The part is built up layer by layer, of either plastic or metal.
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Beavers have their own manager at DB
Thanks to a preventive beaver management program, DB is protecting the natural habitat of beavers while maintaining the safety of rail traffic.
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Climate protection
Stations using renewable power
We do not only use green electricity for long distance transport. We also power many of our stations with 100 percent green electricity, and these are used by more than four million people every day. A total of 33 stations in Germany are part of this green campaign, including our 15 largest stations and our stations of the future.
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Washing your hands without using microplastics
We want to keep our waters free of these substances, which is why we provide passengers with hand soap that is 100 percent free of microplastics on all DB long distance and regional trains.
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Into the future with Digital Rail
We are digitalizing our entire network and thereby shifting more traffic to Strong Rail.
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We're all for refillable spray cans
To save resources and prevent waste when we do so, we use refillable spray cans at many of our depots.
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Climate protection
Get around the depot by eScooter
The grounds of our depots can extend over many hectares, meaning that employees have to cover distances of up to 2,000 meters. We have introduced eScooters so that they can move around as easily as possible, and emission-free to boot. These small three-wheeled vehicles are made of recyclable materials and are powered by the depots' own solar panels. They offer staff an energy-efficient alternative means of moving materials and tools over long distances.
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Get from A to B by electric shuttle
At so many locations around Germany, ioki shuttles are ready and waiting to take passengers from A to B with zero emissions and around the clock. Our vehicles supplement conventional mass transit services.
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Climate protection
Trimming back with battery power
We are increasingly using battery-powered devices when we manage the vegetation along tracks and at stations. Electric power saws, hedge trimmers and leaf blowers not only much lighter than conventional gasoline-powered equipment, they are also much less noisy.
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Our bird diverters
To protect rare birds, we use black-and-white bird diverters on overhead power lines.
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Our tableware protects the environment
We primarily use reusable tableware and sustainable to-go products at our DB staff cafeterias to protect resources.
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Turning environmental protection into a profession
Taking care of the environment is a full-time job. That's why 200 of our environmental coordinators are active each day. They coordinate the implementation of green projects Group-wide and ensure that we comply with environmental protection provisions.
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Things are getting digital
To protect the climate, Deutsche Bahn uses paperless and digital channels to communicate with its passengers and employees.
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Noise reduction
We're toning it down
Our catenary supports and noise barriers have to withstand the elements. That's why we fix them firmly deep in the ground. Unfortunately, construction noise is often unavoidable. We are therefore continuously working on quieter machinery and new technologies to reduce noise pollution. For example, DB Rail Construction uses crawler drills on building sites wherever ground conditions allow. This machinery is much quieter than the conventional ramming devices normally used in construction.
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Climate protection
Your vacation starts with us
We make sure your vacation starts even before you reach the airport. Travelers taking advantage of our Rail&Fly product for tour operators and airlines travel conveniently and with 100% renewable power by train from the railway station to the airport (and back again). This eco-friendly alternative to taking the car can be booked easily through many travel providers.
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Sustainable from the ground up
Our paving stones display their eco-friendliness with pride. Because environmentally friendly production processes and 100 percent renewable energies are used to manufacture them. Which is why we have been paving many of our stations with the climate-neutral stones.
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Climate protection
One ticket for the whole journey
With the City-Ticket, the train journey does not finish at the station. Anyone who has booked a travel ticket that features "+City" can travel free of charge on public transport in over 120 cities to get to their departure station and from the station they arrive at.
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Climate protection
Smart retarding technology at yards
Without retarders on the rails, it is virtually impossible to carry out switching and shunting maneuvers at the classification yard. Retarders brake the wagons as they roll down the hump toward the track they are headed for during train formation. That sounds simple enough, but it actually isn't. In mixed trains, very different types of wagons are coupled together, with properties that vary greatly. Wind direction and wind force also have a considerable impact on the speed and thus the braking behavior of each individual freight wagon.
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We manage the environment
We want to get just that little bit better every day – especially when it comes to protecting the environment. In order to achieve this, we have created an environmental management system in accordance with DIN ISO 14001.
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Less fuel for the same performance
We're continuously working on solutions to reduce our switching locomotives' fuel consumption and pollutant emissions.
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Assessing the environmental impact with just one click
Our new evaluation system, Green ET (Green Evaluation Tool) helps us to protect resources. It makes it possible to generate an environmental assessment of purchased materials and raw materials that the products are made from at the click of a mouse.
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Ordered, delivered, environment protected
Together with pakadoo, we offer our employees a service that consolidates personal and business parcel delivery and protect the climate.
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Our environmental supervisors keep an eye on everything.
We employ environmental lawyers as environmental supervisors for our construction projects. Even before work starts at a building site, these experts check that all environmental protections and laws have been observed.
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Climate protection
Solar-powered cameras for greater security
DB Kommunikationstechnik has developed the first solar-powered mobile CCTV unit. Since it has an autonomous power supply via a solar energy system, it can also be used in locations where providing power is difficult. The system is therefore ideal for preventing vandalism and other damage to our trains when they are parked in sidings. It has up to four cameras, which are fixed to a 7-meter-high swiveling mast.
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Nature conservation
Our Heck cattle and European bison are a wonder to behold
Not many people know that Heck cows and European bison make the perfect landscape gardeners. This rare and robust breed of cattle consumes some 50 kilograms of grass a day. We have given them not only the permission but the official mission to do this. Because our Heck cattle and bisons provide new habitats for rare plants and animals to compensate for unavoidable disturbance to the environment at other locations.
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Climate protection
We give fuel cells a future
Our operations facilities have to run around the clock. Even when there is a power failure. Because our signaling systems, stations and radio communication bases have to be in service at all times. Therefore, in the event of a power failure, standby power systems take over. Diesel-powered generators used to fulfill this function but today fuel cells are increasingly being used.
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Time to recharge those batteries
Our customers can plug in their phones at our first green mobile recharging points at Stuttgart main station – all using renewable energy.
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Climate protection
Our trucks are electric
The future belongs to electrically powered trucks. This is why DB Schenker is promoting the use of carbon-free and low-pollution electric trucks in city centers as well. The 7.5-metric ton Fuso eCanter electric trucks are already driving the streets of Berlin, Frankfurt and other major European cities. They have a range of approximately 120 kilometers and are used to collect and deliver groupage shipments. Depending on their configuration and use, they can carry up to 3.2 metric tons of cargo.
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Our Cargo Bikes can carry heavy loads
Our Cargo Bikes provide an eco-friendly alternative to conventional vehicles such as vans or trucks. They produce less traffic noise on city streets while also creating less pollution.
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Made-to-measure charging
To ensure that our electric cars and buses stay up to speed in the future, we make our renewable power available in a tailor-made charging infrastructure.
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Resource protection
Take our climate-friendly CleverShuttle
With CleverShuttle, our customers travel green and inexpensive from door to door. The RidePooling transport service connects people with similar destinations. For example, from the train station to the front door.
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We are forward-looking in how we save energy
Letting the train coast to a stop to save energy? Sounds unlikely, but in fact it's not that unusual. If time permits, our train drivers receive driving recommendations via the green functions in the train movement control system to help them save energy. The system automatically provides the drivers with recommendations on energy-efficient driving.
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Nature conservation
We move green electricity
DB Rail Construction offers environmentally friendly, temporary energy generation units to make green electricity available wherever it is needed away from the power grid. The green units use photovoltaic technology or fuel cells to operate independently for months at a time.
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What plant is that?
Our leaflets on hazardous plant life provide employees with guidelines for when they come into contact with plants that require careful handling due to their potential impact on health and wellbeing.
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Protection for our animal friends
Hives of activity, our construction sites bustle with construction vehicles – and with all kinds of animals too, right next to the tracks. Our employees need to be able to identify their animal neighbors even better, to prevent them from being harmed. Our new publication will help them with this.
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We want to stop in Bavaria more often
The Bavarians are on the move more often now. And on the move very quickly. Because by 2023, we will have built 20 new stations right across the state of Bavaria. The stations will generally be located near residential areas, but also near higher education institutions, industrial estates, shopping malls, public swimming pools and hospitals.
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Sharing ideas about a strong, green rail
To make strong, green rail a reality, we need innovative solutions and broad acceptance in society at large. That's why we regularly engage in dialogue with our stakeholders.
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Resource protection
Our warehouses save energy
DB Schenker's eco warehouses worldwide ensure for energy-efficient warehouse logistics and less CO2 emissions.
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We've given up the spray cans
We have done away with spray-based solutions when servicing our trains as they contain solvents that have a negative impact on the environment and on people's health. One such commonly used substance is a brake cleaner – every year, we used to use about 7,000 containers of it at our depot for long distance trains at Rummelsburg in Berlin alone. But we've put a stop to that.
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Travel with green apps
When it comes to traveling, there's strength in numbers. And if this also means protecting the climate, it's a win-win situation. You can now experience all this with the help of DB Regio's Wohin Du Willst app. The free app brings together all forms of public transport: buses, demand-responsive transport and ridesharing options. It is just one of a host of green apps we offer that make it easier to use public transport and different sharing systems.
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Next stop: snack station
Red squirrels are among the best known native rodents and are under species protection. This is why our employees are helping the squirrels in their search for food by installing food stations.
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Eco-friendly water dispensers
In our office buildings, we have installed water dispensers that are connected directly to the water pipe. So there is no need for plastic bottles.
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Our bovine landscape designers
These working animals don't mind standing up to their stomachs in water. At Büdingen in Hesse, water buffalo are helping us transform a former military site into a swamp. Since summer 2014, six animals have been grazing at the site, which is perfect for them thanks to its wetness. Due to their strong build, they are able to reach areas of this wetland that other grazing animals cannot reach.
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Our pathways for otters
Otters are very unusual. Although they swim in water like fish, they prefer to walk through culverts under bridges rather than swim through them. In response, we created a special pathway for the animals when building a railway bridge over the Nuthe, a tributary of the river Havel in Brandenburg.
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We protect even the smallest creatures
Formica polyctena, a species of European red wood ant, is on the IUCN's (International Union for Conservation of Nature) red list of endangered species in Germany, so we bring its anthills to safety whenever we encounter them during construction work. We have relocated two such nests from the site of Karower Kreuz station in northern Berlin, for example. First, we pack an anthill into a large paper sack and move it to its new site. Placing it on the ground, we spread a circle of sugar around the nest.
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A healthy balance in our eco-account
The eco-account is like a savings account for the environment. We pay into it by undertaking voluntary, preventative conservation work. This earns us credit that we can later use to offset any activities that have a negative ecological impact, such as construction work. We can therefore keep our books balanced, as it were, with these restoration and compensation measures for the environment.
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Our energy scouts are on the ball
Maybe you've heard of our ticket machine scouts? They show passengers how to use our ticket machines properly. For some years now, we have also had energy scouts, who identify energy-related shortcomings at our company and develop proposals for improving performance. They can help us in our aim to reduce our energy costs and CO2 emissions even further.
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Tablets instead of reams of paper
Previously, our train drivers and train attendants had to carry heavy books of service regulations, timetables and circulars around with them. Now the majority of these documents is stored on their tablets – always the current version, of course.
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Windows to cut out noise
We are installing thousands of sound-insulating windows to protect people living near tracks from train noise and to ensure they get a good night's sleep.
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Ticket machines in power-save mode
A growing number of our ticket machines are particularly thrifty when it comes to energy consumption. Standard machines now only consume around 90 watts each – the same amount of power as a commercial laptop. This is because they use LED lighting for their displays and have highly efficient mains adaptors.
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A powerful conversion
We started operating electric trains as long ago as 1895. However, we cannot simply take electricity from the socket – we have to convert it first. Because, then as now, trains use power with a frequency of 16.7 Hertz, whereas 50 Hertz is the frequency used in the public electricity grid. Electricity is increasingly being converted in converter stations.
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Engines off for the environment
An automatic start-stop system for locomotives ensures that they do not consume unnecessary amounts of diesel, thereby cutting pollution and waste.
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Clean heating at DB
We are not heating our future away, but relying on clean energy. At the Munich-Pasing maintenance depot, for instance, DB Regio is able to cut a vast amount of CO2 emissions by using geothermal power and energy-efficient systems. Cogeneration plants are more common at DB. They produce electricity and heat at the same time.
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Natural river courses for biodiversity
Rivers cross our land like veins, which is why we are committed to restoring as many natural river courses as possible. In this way, we want to promote the biodiversity of plants and animals. For example, when building the new Berlin-Nuremberg line (VDE8), we created nine floodways along the river Main and sowed various native plants in them to establish vegetation.
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New habitats for the natterjack toad
The natterjack toad is quite small and, thanks to its strikingly short hind legs, moves more like a mouse than a toad. Instead of jumping, it prefers to run, especially on the sandy floodplains of rivers and streams. Unfortunately, this habitat is threatened and the natterjack toad is therefore classed as a strictly protected species.
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Climate protection
Our trains are spotlessly clean
Our train washing facilities are particularly green. The water used to wash the trains is recycled, meaning considerably less of it is required.
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Pole position for our trains
In life, smart planning always saves time. And for us, it saves CO2 as well. This is what our employees, or more precisely our dispatchers, are committed to doing. They specify when the trains are to be stabled on which track and in which order when they are not in use, so that they are ready for service again faster and with as little switching as possible at departure time. This saves a great deal of energy.
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We are creating space for more life
The removal of rail facilities that are no longer needed gives us an opportunity to return land to nature and so generate habitats for flora and fauna. In Frankfurt, for example, we are linking together several tracts of woodland to create an area 12 square kilometers large in the city's Schwanheim district. We are moving the rail line between the international airport and Frankfurt's stadium station further to the east.
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Resource protection
Heat from underground
Geothermal energy is an environmentally friendly way to heat buildings in winter and cool them in summer. One of the great advantages of geothermal heat is that we can use it at any time and in any weather. We already exploit this source of power at our green stations in Kerpen-Horrem and Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and also at Buchloe station in Bavaria.
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Learning for the environment
We would like our employees to be environmentalists, as well as our customers. We motivate our employees to become much more involved in environmental issues and keep their knowledge up to date at all times.
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A second chance for computer equipment
We don't let anyone get thrown on the scrap heap – we give decommissioned monitors, laptops, PCs and mobile devices a new life and extend their service life.
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A makeover for our trains
We attach great importance to ensuring our trains' service lives are as long as possible. Our ICE trains, for example, have a service life of at least 30 years. In order for them to reach this impressive age, we carry out a redesign on them about halfway through their service life. The train's exterior remains essentially unchanged, but inside we overhaul many components and replace any parts that cannot be reconditioned, for example seats.
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We want a green office
We make it easy for our employees to be green, even when organizing their daily work life. They can purchase their office and work supplies conveniently from our in-house platform DB Marketplace. This shop shows clearly which articles are particularly eco-friendly, for instance notepads made from recycled paper.
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Our very own Apollo mission
The Apollo butterfly is one of the rarest butterfly species in Europe. It mainly lives on stony terrain in mountain landscapes. Largely as a result of humans' impact on nature, the Apollo is an endangered species, and it has been protected since 1936. This is reason enough for us to conserve the population living in the foothills of the Swabian Jura and safeguard its preservation.
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Helping fish to climb
The majority of Germany's rivers have been widened and straightened in recent times, and this has had a significant impact on the fish, plant and animal communities in many watercourses. We are attempting to restore the original river beds and banks by rewilding these adjusted river courses. For us, this is more than just a compensatory measure.
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Nesting boxes for falcons
Falcons don't have it easy in Germany. Although they are one of our protected animal species, their habitat is under serious threat. Falcons like to breed at great heights, but when a pair of peregrine falcons tried to build a nest on the pier of a viaduct on the Hanover-Würzburg line they were sadly unsuccessful. On discovering this, DB Netz and Bavaria's association for the protection of birds came together to install a nesting box for them.
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A heart for the wood grouse
We must not let the wood grouse die out. But this is just what could happen if we do nothing. We have taken action in the Seelenwald forest, located on the Black Forest rail line in Baden-Württemberg. We have improved the habitat for the wood grouse, which live mainly on the ground, by clearing trees and planting grass and moss to provide the extravagant bird with a safe home.
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Serving the environment
We are giving the environment a voice. With the help of our environmental assistants at the ICE maintenance depot in Frankfurt, for example. Specially trained in environmental issues, these employees act in a similar way to a safety officer, identifying potential problems and working hard to rectify them.
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Scoring points with unspoiled nature
We are one of Germany's largest owners of forests, with total holdings of around 20,000 hectares. One of our woodland sites is near the village of Elm in eastern Hesse. Here, a century ago, railway employees planted trees on the embankment flanking the rail line between the towns of Hanau and Fulda.
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Oil keeps longer with us
We are going the extra mile to conserve raw materials. The Dessau maintenance depot has developed a special filtering procedure to reprocess old synthetic oil. A filter ensures that pollutants, particles and water are filtered out of the old oil. The oil is then as good as new and can be used again to service our trains. The Dessau maintenance depot alone saves up to 30,000 liters of new oil per year in this way.
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We use our energy wisely
The best way to protect the climate is by not consuming energy in the first place. This is why we rely on an intelligent energy management system.
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Our construction logistics are dependent on rail
We make our construction logistics environmentally friendly in that, wherever possible, we avoid using trucks to transport building materials. This protects the road network and makes driving less fraught.
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Full commitment, less fuel
Our bus and truck drivers play a crucial role in our services, and we have created courses designed to show how they can drive most energy-efficiently.
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We turn leftovers into energy
We don't throw leftovers away – instead, we turn them into green energy. Our staff restaurants are left with uneaten food at the end of every day. Working with our partner LOGEX, we make sure that these leftovers are put to good use.
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Next stop: the future
As part of our Station of the Future project, we are using 16 locations around Germany to test innovative solutions for enhancing our customer services and promoting new ideas for eco-friendly onward travel. These include running stations on renewable power, adding more spaces for bicycles, installing a moss-covered wall that improves the indoor climate, and using intelligent litter bins.
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New life for old sleepers
Concrete sleepers, or railroad ties, are vital for keeping train tracks in position. An average of more than two million sleepers are used at DB every year. Whenever possible, therefore, we recondition them. In the past few years that was around 200,000 recycled sleepers a year.
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Welcome to the insect hotel
Deutsche Bahn is encouraging biodiversity by building insect hotels on its land, thereby offering little bugs a safe haven.
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Accommodating cranes
When we upgraded the Stendal-Uelzen line, we established a breeding and nesting site for cranes on unused farmland covering some 6.5 hectares. Other endangered animal species also have found shelter here. How did we do this? We made improvements to stretches of river and used rocks to slow down the flow of the current.
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Nature conservation
We turn goats into gardeners
Some animals that help us maintain precious natural habitats come from far away. Boer goats are originally from South Africa, but they serve us well by grazing on dry grassland in the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Their hooves do not damage the soil's surface and they are particularly agile creatures, which makes them ideal candidates for keeping any unwanted vegetation in check.
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Bat hotel in Western Pomerania
All of Germany's bat species have been protected by law for many years. So whenever we launch a building project in their old homes, we find the bats a new place to live, devising a solution for each specific species.
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Lizards are our friends
Lizards like to lay their eggs in sunny locations and patches of sand, which is why they are particularly common along railway embankments. We make the effort to move them before we start building and maintenance work on the rail infrastructure.
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Social responsibility
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Fair-trade is to our taste
We see promoting sustainable nutrition and environmental protection as our duty. That is why we are the largest caterer in Germany that offers customers fairly traded coffee. The on-board bistros on ICE and IC trains now only serve hot beverages with a fair-trade label.
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Climate protection
Resource protection
A green finish for our depots
Whenever we modify or renovate a depot, improving its energy profile and enhancing sustainability are always part of the job. This covers everything from insulating walls and replacing windows to installing modern heating systems.
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Climate protection
No chance for energy guzzlers
A company can optimize its electricity consumption only if it knows how much power it actually uses at a specific place. By using smart sub-meters that can be read remotely, we have a transparent overview of energy consumption in individual areas of our office buildings and depots. In this way, we can specifically target equipment that guzzles energy.
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Climate protection
Our trains take AdBlue
We refuel our diesel locomotives with AdBlue® and are reducing pollutants thanks to modern exhaust aftertreatment.
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Climate protection
Noise reduction
Eco-friendly from door to door with electric buses
DB Regio Bus and the City Bocholt have been operating the first fully electric bus in regional city traffic. The bus is quiet and climate neutral. More electric buses are operating at our subsidiary DB Arriva in Europe.
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Climate protection
With bike and bus on the way
Cyclists know only too well that there is often not much space on the bus, meaning that their bikes have to stay at home. DB Regio Buses and DB Arriva Slovenia have some practical solutions on offer: public transport users can put their bikes in trailers or racks for sustainable and climate-friendly mobility.
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Nature conservation
Our research into better conservation strategies
Protecting nature and wildlife are close to our hearts. That's why we are looking into effective ideas for protecting plants and animals on DB-owned land.
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Resource protection
Recycled paper is standard at DB
Whenever it´s possible, we are reducing the use of paper or use eco-friendly recycled paper. This cuts back on wood, energy and water consumption.
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Nature conservation
Our data collection helps nature
With our environmental database FINK, we document all the nature conservation measures we carry out as part of our new-build, upgrade and maintenance work.
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Resource protection
Our toilets are economical
Our toilets are economical – at least as far as their water consumption is concerned. Water is a precious resource that we conserve, thanks to on-board toilets that need little of it. High-pressure technology means that each flush requires just 750 ml of water as against the four to nine liters that a conventional lavatory sluices down the drain.
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Climate protection
Doubly efficient: EcoTrain
Our EcoTrain is a new modular concept that we have developed for environmentally friendly rail vehicles.
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Climate protection
We help climate protection to take flight
We are working with partners from research and industry on innovative solutions for more climate protection. One example is an electric utility drone, our joint project with start-up Volocopter.
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Resource protection
Climate protection
Well informed digitally with DB Planet
DB is turning to digital choices for more and more of its print media in internal communications. In doing so, it reduces not only the amount of paper used, but also water and energy consumption.
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Noise reduction
We are researching for your nighttime rest
We want to give residents and the environment more peace and quiet along our routes in the future too. This is why we launched the I-LENA project with the German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI). From more than 60 innovative ideas for noise abatement technologies that were submitted, around 30 were selected to cover different groups of noise abatement measures.
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Climate protection
Testing hydrogen as the fuel of the future
We want to make our transport greener than ever. To this end, we are researching and developing climate friendly technologies, such as the use of hydrogen.
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Climate protection
Let's get the train out of here
With our “Sparpreis Touristik” and “Flexpreis Touristik“ offerings for tour operators, we are committed to enabling more vacationers to start their journey by train. Tour operators can easily round off their package deals with Deutsche Bahn's eco-friendly rail transport, meaning that vacationers begin their leisure time with a positive carbon footprint.
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Resource protection
Climate protection
We have heaps of ballast
We do not dispose of old ballast stones, but recycle them and then reuse them in the track bed.
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Climate protection
A bright future with LED lights
At our stations, depots and other buildings, we use energy-efficient lighting and are reducing our energy demands thanks to LED technology.
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Climate protection
On your company bike to climate protection
DB's company bike initiative supports employees who want to buy a bicycle that they can also use when they are not at work. More than 43.000 bicycles have been ordered already.
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Climate protection begins at the depot
It is not only our trains that are green – we also focus on solutions for sustainability and climate protection in our maintenance depots.
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Climate protection
A fresh wind is blowing for us
It is not only in Germany that are we supporting electricity from renewable energy sources. Our subsidiary DB Arriva is increasingly using green electricity in its companies around the world. Among other things, it operates wind turbines in Portugal that generate clean power for trains and rail depots.
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Climate protection
Loads of green credentials
Our new forklift trucks at DB Schenker are not only quiet but also climate-friendly. This is because the forklifts are powered by fuel cells for the first time, which means they do not emit any exhaust pollution during operation. The project has also seen DB Schenker establish a milestone in green engine technology for automotive transport systems.
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Climate protection
Noise reduction
A well-used locomotive with new green propulsion equipment
HELMS is the name of one of our innovation projects. Standing for Hybrid Electro Mechanical Shunter, it sees DB Cargo, DB Heavy Maintenance and DB Systemtechnik join forces with Toshiba and Henschel to develop a new hybrid propulsion system for long-reliable diesel-hydraulic locomotives that need to be modernized. The goal is to reduce the diesel consumption and CO2 emissions of the locomotives by up to 20 percent.
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Noise reduction
Less CO2 with our H3
Alstom's climate-friendly H3 hybrid locomotive is one of Deutsche Bahn's research projects. It ensures lower CO2 emissions and reduces noise on the rails.
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Noise reduction
We're doing something about noise
Conventional noise barriers are not allowed everywhere in the cityscape. There is also not always enough space to build them next to the tracks. We are therefore testing a range of innovative measures to ensure that we are able to offer really suitable solutions at all times. For example, we have developed a kind of coat for our rails, known as a rail web damper. Plastic plates are installed on either side of a rail at short intervals.
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Climate protection
Berlin, Berlin, we're going to Berlin
The school trip begins on the train. We started offering school trips many years ago, and now we organize trips to 140 destinations throughout Germany and Europe. Our team coordinates everything, such as planning the route, reserving accommodation and organizing activities at the destination.
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Climate protection
A shuttle bus celebrates autonomy
Autonomous, electric-powered vehicles aren't just a futuristic notion for us. We are testing two autonomous buses for use in local transport service in the Bavarian town of Bad Birnbach.
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Climate protection
Parking in the sunniest spots
Integrated travel is important to get people from A to B quickly. That is why DB BahnPark offers its customers multilevel and underground parking garages and outdoor parking lots in the immediate vicinity of stations throughout Germany. The DB subsidiary is making its contribution to climate protection with solar-powered parking meters.
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Resource protection
Even our buildings are green
We place great store by the sustainable construction and modernization of our office buildings. We are increasingly focusing on ensuring that our office buildings have been certified in line with modern ecological standards. This helps our employees feel good at work while at the same time conserving resources.
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Nature conservation
Clean air from green roofs
A unique biotope right above the station? To generate power in a way that saves resources, we start at the top. The roofs of our green stations in Kerpen-Horrem and Lutherstadt Wittenberg do not only generate solar power. These green roofs, on which grasses and herbs have been planted, use rain water management to ensure a water supply for the sanitary facilities and function as a natural air conditioning system.
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Nature conservation
Climate protection
Trips to experience nature
Destination Nature is a joint undertaking between DB and Germany's environmental associations with the goal of encouraging more people to use eco-friendly travel, i.e. buses and trains, at nature reserves and national parks and so promote sustainable tourism.
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Climate protection
We get our power from the charging station
We are bringing eco-friendly electric mobility from the rails to the road to help our customers manage the last mile from station to destination without any problems. We provide a secure network of charging stations for our own carsharing fleet. For example, DB Energie provides charging facilities in parking lots at stations across Germany for electric vehicles in the Flinkster network. To realize our project of installing station charging points, we receive funding from the Federal Government's program supporting the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.
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Climate protection
How we wash the dishes at Deutsche Bahn
In the kitchens of our staff restaurants we only use products that are all certified in line with the EU's Ecolabel or Nordic Swan standards.
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Resource protection
Our cups live longer
Disposable cups have a lifespan of less than 15 minutes – and then they are thrown away. This generates an unimaginable amount of waste every day: according to the German environmental association Deutsche Umwelthilfe, the daily figure in Germany is in the region of 7.6 million cups. That's 320,000 cups every hour. Not only does their production require tens of thousands of metric tons of wood and billions of liters of water, it also often leads to road and environmental pollution. We offer an environmentally friendly, sustainable alternative with our DB reusable cups.
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Nature conservation
Free flight for birds
We protect birds and other animal species. That is why we fit our new overhead lines with animal guards to protect birds and other animals from electrocution, and prevent disruption to our electrical systems. We are now also retrofitting existing routes.
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Social responsibility
Climate protection
Why we support wood-burning cookers
Unfortunately, renewable energy is not yet available to make every single rail journey worldwide CO2-free. In response, we have created an option for compensating CO2 emissions produced during the course of international transports. DB Cargo calculates the CO2 emissions of a given journey and invests a sum corresponding to this figure in selected sustainability-focused projects around the world. These projects promote the growth of renewable energy, thus helping to reduce CO2 emissions. They also improve the development of sustainable processes in the target regions.
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Climate protection
Resource protection
That's how we keep electric motors running
Nothing works without our electric motors. To ensure that the motors of our electric locomotives can still be used for a long time to come, the Dessau maintenance depot has introduced a technical process to extend their service life for the long term. The principle is simple: when the insulation system of an electric motor has suffered substantial damage, the coils of the motor, which are firmly encapsulated in impregnating resins, must be replaced.
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Climate protection
We are tapping into the sun
Our roofs already contribute significantly to helping the environment by harnessing the power of the sun and using it to produce clean electricity. Many of our maintenance depots, stations and storage facilities are equipped with solar energy units.
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Noise reduction
TRAXX is driving climate protection
Our trains have been taking people to the island of Sylt for over 90 years. But never before has a trip across the Hindenburgdamm been as environmentally friendly as it is today. Because our TRAXX diesel locomotives consume less fuel and are quieter than the trains previously used here. DB Regio also uses this locomotive type on its lines.
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Climate protection
Keeping an eye on emissions
We can use the Carbon Dashboard tool to show customers their monthly CO2 figures from the preceding quarter or year – all digitally, of course. This is one of the services provided by DB Schenker eServices. The tool takes all modes of transport into account and the final analysis is presented in the form of a chart.
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Climate protection
So that you have a clean record
With the bahn.business program, you save money and protect the environment too. As a business traveler, your long distance journeys in Germany have always used 100 percent renewable power. Now, since January 2020, your trips on DB's local and regional trains within Germany are also powered with 100 percent renewable energy.
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Nature conservation
Climate protection
How to protect our forests
DB has been a partner of the Bergwaldprojekt e. V. association, which is dedicated to nature conservation and has "protecting our forests together" as its motto, since 2009. Over 330,000 trees have already been planted with donations from Deutsche Bahn and customers - a total of 180 soccer fields.
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Noise reduction
Our mission to give you a restful night
We want to reduce rail noise to ensure residents living near rail lines have more peace and quiet. To achieve this, we are erecting noise barriers on new and upgraded lines, for instance. And we are also installing them on existing lines as part of remedial measures. Whenever a train passes by, the walls absorb noise and shield nearby homes.
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Nature conservation
Our woolly friends
We love sheep, and we have a whole range of them, black and white, large and small. About 600 of our woolly friends help maintain a valuable habitat in the valley of the river Unstrut in Saxony-Anhalt. By eating only certain plants, they give others, such as rare orchids, space to flourish along with a wide range of wild animals. The sheep are, in a sense, working for us.
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Climate protection
Check your environmental impact
No traffic jams, no tolls and no harmful fumes. Instead of flying or driving, you can take the train to so many fantastic destinations in Europe. Deutsche Bahn's services are not just comfortable, they're also very eco-friendly. If you want to see just how green a journey with our trains can be, use our Environmental Mobility Check, a free comparison tool available on our travel information website. It puts a figure on CO2 emissions, energy consumption and pollutant levels, while also displaying how trains compare with the equivalent journey by car or plane.
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Nature conservation
Unspoiled nature with cattle and birdsong
Do you want to see Heck cattle that are almost as tall as a man and rare wild horses grazing on a former army training area? No problem. The animals fulfil the role of landscape gardeners, ensuring the land is grazed sustainably. The Aschaffenburg natural heritage trail is three kilometers long and leads you around the untouched pastures where the animals roam. Numerous other rare animal and plant species have also settled here over time.
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Our four-legged gardeners
Wild horses help our landscape conservation efforts. They graze on a total of 158 hectares of land near Hanau and in Aschaffenburg, providing environmental sustainability by ensuring that the land does not become overgrown. In this way, the habitat of many plant and animal species is preserved.
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Young people with smart ideas
Our trainees are doing their bit for the environment. The eco-aware trainees at DB Long Distance create smart ideas for a green future.
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Climate protection
Generating electricity by braking
Our vehicles are not just energy-efficient. Many of them even generate power themselves – simply by braking. Because all modern electric trains at Deutsche Bahn are equipped with a brake energy recovery function. Also our bus fleet is making an increasing use of this type of energy generation.
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Climate protection
Relax and meet emission-free
Many companies are organizing climate-friendly events today and striving to produce as little CO2 as possible. We can help with this. Visitors with an Event Ticket from DB have always enjoyed 100 percent CO2-free travel on long distance trains in Germany, and now, since January 2020, their journeys on local and regional trains make exclusive use of renewable power too. This way, the ticket is not only great for the event's participants, but it's also good for the environment.
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Hydropower gets us moving
We are already the largest consumer of green electricity in Germany and are increasing our commitment to the environment day by day. Green energy already accounts for approx. 61% of our traction current mix.
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Our green hybrid buses
Electric drive systems protect the environment. Of course, our trains already run on green electricity. But even on the roads, the trend is increasingly moving toward electric. DB Arriva's hybrid buses carry thousands of passengers every day, actively protecting the environment and the climate. They feature an electric drive system along with a conventional internal combustion engine.
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Climate protection
Our train on two wheels
The Call a Bike service offers our customers a relaxed and eco-friendly way to get to their destination: our Call a Bike family now boasts over 16,000 bicycles.
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Social responsibility
Resource protection
Our employees are dressed fairly
DB´s corporate clothing is not only stylish, but also fairly sourced.
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Climate protection
We make your transport clean
Many of our customers would like to reduce their carbon footprint but do not have the necessary expertise to take the right steps toward achieving this. We can help. Eco Consulting, which focuses on providing advice on environmental issues in logistics, is an integral part of DB Schenker and DB Cargo's service portfolios. We advise customers on even greener ways of getting their goods to their destination. Experts record the CO2 emissions and pollutant emissions of different modes of transport along the supply chain.
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Climate protection
Fully electric to prevent exhaust fumes
With such a large rail network, there is always something to build, which is why we cannot do without our construction vehicles and machines. But we can certainly do without exhaust fumes. In order to minimize the impact on the environment and local residents, we only use low-emission vehicles and construction machines on our inner-city construction sites. They cut soot particle emissions by up to 90 percent.
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Nature conservation
Our unused land is buzzing
Without bees, our ecosystem is in danger. For the preservation of the honeybee we have turned DB land over to private beekeepers free of charge and are putting up "arks" for wild bees at some of our stations.
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Resource protection
Save paper with the mobile phone ticket
Our mobile phone ticket is an eco-friendly alternative to a conventional paper ticket, and it can be booked quickly and easily in our DB Navigator app. Together, this way, we are able to save valuable resources.
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Climate protection
How train drivers save energy
Taking the train protects the climate. Our train drivers make sure of this, by driving with the environment in mind. We have designed training modules that teach them a range of simple methods for cutting energy consumption by up to 10 percent.
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Climate protection
Faster with Flinkster carsharing
Our Flinkster carsharing service helps our customers to be mobile both before and after a train journey.
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Resource protection
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Green meadows on station roofs
What makes two of our stations climate neutral? Quite simply: their entire energy demand for heating and lighting is covered by means of green energy obtained from geothermal heat and solar panels.
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Noise reduction
Our brakes can whisper
Thanks to the whisper brake, our freight wagons from DB Cargo are quietly on the move and are only heard half as loud.
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Climate protection
Our electricity is a clean business
You can get your electricity from Deutsche Bahn. Not from the overhead line, but from the socket at home. DB Energie, who supplies electricity for our trains, signaling systems, stations, workshops and offices, also offers green electricity to private customers. 100 percent of it is obtained from renewable energy sources and is certified in line with the requirements of the ok-power label.
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DB Regio is on track
DB's regional trains protect the environment because a trip causes fewer CO2 emissions than a trip by car.
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Climate protection
Protect the environment with the BahnCard
Our BahnCard customers truly help to protect the environment. They automatically travel with 100% renewable power on long distance services. This lets every BahnCard holder make their journey with Deutsche Bahn that little bit greener. With our eco-powered long distance trains, we are setting the course for achieving our climate targets on time.
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Get to your destination with renewable power
Taking the train protects the climate. Since the beginning of 2018 our customers in long distance service travel by 100% renewable power within Germany. And our regional and local transport is also green. All trains on the Hamburg S-Bahn network run entirely on renewables. At the beginning of 2020, we converted six regional lines to 100% renewable power in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg as well. In freight transport, our DBeco plus option also offers transport service with 100% renewable power.
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