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    • A track construction worker installs bolts on a section of rail.
    • A business traveler sits by the window on an ICE train and writes something in a notebook.
    • A battery train travels on rails through a green landscape.
    • Two DB employees stand on a bridge and look at a passing ICE train.
    • An ICE in the Thuringian Forest on the high-speed line between Erfurt and Nuremberg.
      • Deutsche Bahn wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by testing innovative building materials - for example with climate-friendly rail steel and new types of eco-concrete.

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      • With Deutsche Bahn's bahn.business program, business travelers not only save money. Thanks to renewable power, they also travel in a particularly climate-friendly way.

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      • Deutsche Bahn aims to be climate neutral by 2040. One solution: modern battery trains for routes not yet electrified.

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      • Deutsche Bahn has been researching effective measures to protect flora and fauna for many years and is testing the use of modern technology.

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      • Deutsche Bahn relies on renewable energy and energy-saving LED lights for its "Green Stations" - for example in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

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      Environmental brand This is green.

      With its environmental brand This is green., Deutsche Bahn shows how sustainability is anchored in the Group's operational value chain and makes its ecological commitment tangible. The portfolio comprises more than 150 concrete measures in the fields of action of climate resilience and climate protection, as well as resource and environmental protection, and noise reduction. For example, sustainable products and services are marked with a This is green.-signet including a measure number and specific message – whether on trains, at stations, or purely digitally. This increases recognition and provides orientation. At the same time, more detailed information on the individual measures can be found at any time on Deutsche Bahn's sustainability website. With This is green., DB provides transparent information about the successes of its ecological transformation – but also about possible challenges.