• Implementing a clear and simple approach to dealing with embodied carbon in making maintenance, renewal activities, applying innovation to meet tomorrow’s challenges
• Exploring new materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber as alternatives to steel and their practical application in rail maintenance depots, track maintenance and for wheelsets and bogies
• Managing implementation barriers to introducing new materials in rail maintenance and renewal activities, overcoming initial resistance and addressing concerns regarding safety
• Working with suppliers to create transparency and accountability for the life cycle design of sustainable rail products

• Understanding why sustainable financing opens new prospects for railway companies, utilising green bonds to finance rail investments and address the challenges of climate change
• Best practice aligning rail investments with net-zero goals, balancing long-term sustainability and cost benefits
• How can private finance contribute to the solution of decarbonisation of the railway, getting the green light for investment in new rolling stock
• Is private finance of electrification a possibility in the future, can infrastructure replicating the financing model for trains to deliver sustainable innovation in rail

• How are European manufacturers and importers preparing to meet availability and avoid cost increases when the Carbon border Adjustment Mechanism regulation is introduced in 2026
• Achieving compliance in a new age of European sustainability reporting standards, delivering a legal framework that accounts for greenhouse emissions, circularity of product and the company
• How do European suppliers work with their global partners to help them to reduce their emissions and align their net zero commitments to meet European regulations and standards
• Developing like roadmap to climate neutrality, strategies for dealing with unabated emission, applying carbon removal technology in the rail world, how is the regulation developing in this field
• Working with GBRTT to prepare UK rail businesses for the introduction of the Transition Plan Taskforce align economic growth, financial and environmental sustainability

• Focus on scope one and scope two and the purchase of renewable electricity to deliver sustainability, growing the business and achieving Net-Zero
• How do we procure energy, what are the unique challenges that incorporate renewable energy purchasing, planning and securing long term rail renewable energies strategies
• Optimising procurement processes, delivery and contracting innovation to deliver more efficient implementations of technology and reduce rail net zero emissions
• Managing the switch to renewable energy, ensuring sufficient clean energy generation, connecting renewable sources to the grid, embracing renewable energy in rail

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• What are the current challenges in getting the data and information for carbon related elements within, rolling stock, buildings, stations and infrastructure
• Best practice working with the supply chain and smaller suppliers to create sustainability reporting strategies that improve sustainability and efficiency in the supply chain
• How are supplier and rail companies introducing activities to measure the metrics related with meeting their science-based targets on emission reduction and carbon restore projects
• Implementing a standard supplier approach to calculating and tracking emissions, overcoming the challenges of combining data from suppliers reliably for accurate reporting
• Digital product passes to the rescue, can EU regulations drive up standards on reporting with the evolution of the product passports in relation to accessing crucial product data information
• Can the rail industry draw upon some experience of other industries to create a consistent way of accounting for carbon, engaging with the supply chain the create change

• Integrating biodiversity, circular economy and resource protection in rail net zero, implementing process efficiencies, nature-based solutions and technology to deliver net zero emission in rail
• How can biodiversity support engineering management in the building and maintenance of railways, reducing signal sighting issues or flooding risk
• Examine how introducing biodiversity can help improve the success rate of planning permission applications for new build projects
• Choosing the right species of or the right habitat to have next to your railway, managing tree heights, reduce the number of leaves on the line or delivering sustainable drainage system
• Recognising and understanding the value of nature-based solutions for specific railway challenges, mitigating the impacts of extreme weather events and reducing maintenance cost
• Application of biodiversity in rail, actively managing and controlling the spread of both invasive and non-invasive animals to improve the management of tracks and infrastructure

• How do rail companies move further ahead on scope three target and resource protection, getting the required data to help determine future infrastructure build and maintenance
• Building processes and systems to capture the data, what strategies and technologies are rail organisations implementing to achieve the objectives on European Regulations for reporting
• Best practice on presenting progress against action plans, how do you apply that in the rail industry, how do we report on our carbon footprint every year, so we don’t double count impacts
• Building confidence in the reporting metrics: Improving transparency in reporting, tracking progress and keeping stakeholders informed on what we're doing and how we are doing it
• Is the Focus on Scope 3 Reporting Diverting Resources from More Achievable Scope 1 and 2 Targets in Rail’s Sustainability Journey

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• How do rail companies move further ahead on scope three target and resource protection, getting the required data to help determine future infrastructure build and maintenance
• Building processes and systems to capture the data, what strategies and technologies are rail organisations implementing to achieve the objectives on European Regulations for reporting
• Best practice on presenting progress against action plans, how do you apply that in the rail industry, how do we report on our carbon footprint every year, so we don’t double count impacts
• Building confidence in the reporting metrics: Improving transparency in reporting, tracking progress and keeping stakeholders informed on what we're doing and how we are doing it
• Is the Focus on Scope 3 Reporting Diverting Resources from More Achievable Scope 1 and 2 Targets in Rail’s Sustainability Journey

• Applying systems thinking to improve circularity, engaging the supply chain and communities, moving from a linear process to a circular process to connect different agendas
• Recycling common elements used in rail, increasing the availability of re-useable materials and tracking individual integral parts and components to attain the highest level of circularity
• Increasing the availability of recycled materials like steel, metal or aluminium’s to contribute to circularity and reuse and reduce emissions, what are the main challenges and barriers
• Applying composite and innovative materials in rail infrastructure and trains, advancing the use of new material in rail increase product life cycles to reduce consumption
• Supply chain innovation, reducing the energy consumption related with the product design for products used in rail services and operations

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• Implementing a clear and simple approach to dealing with embodied carbon in making maintenance, renewal activities, applying innovation to meet tomorrow’s challenges
• Exploring new materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber as alternatives to steel and their practical application in rail maintenance depots, track maintenance and for wheelsets and bogies
• Managing implementation barriers to introducing new materials in rail maintenance and renewal activities, overcoming initial resistance and addressing concerns regarding safety
• Working with suppliers to create transparency and accountability for the life cycle design of sustainable rail products

• Implementing strategies for maximizing the use of materials and asset in rail projects, defining and agreeing a definition of reuse for clarity
• how do we maximize the use and re-use of materials in rail project, increase the availability, reliability and on time delivery of redundant assets back within capital works programs
• Defining which materials to focus on and adopting diverse approaches based on the specific context of work, building, civil projects, track renewals or signalling projects
• setting clear objectives and guidelines on monitoring and measuring the progress of these initiatives, how does that feedback into the strategic objectives on net zero
• Achieving circularity of the track excavation waste, moving from a linear methodology to bring waste back and examining the benefits in terms of carbon saving, material saving and recycling
• Considering the environmental, economically and social aspect of increasing material re-use in rail projects

• How is the industry embedding principles around emissions, natural environment and social sustainability, enabling executive teams, workforce and stakeholders through cultural change
• Embracing innovation, digital technology, making better use of data to drive behavioural change within the internal organisation
• Applying systems thinking in environmental rail, viewing sustainability within the business context to optimise cost reduction and drive service improvements
• Understanding the requirement needed to drive environmental management improvements in the services that rail industry provides and the projects rail companies deliver
• Introducing sustainability by design workshops for rail projects as hotbeds of ideas and innovation creation, capturing and feeding back information to product design teams

• How are European manufacturers and importers preparing to meet availability and avoid cost increases when the Carbon border Adjustment Mechanism regulation is introduced in 2026
• Achieving compliance in a new age of European sustainability reporting standards, delivering a legal framework that accounts for greenhouse emissions, circularity of product and the company
• How do European suppliers work with their global partners to help them to reduce their emissions and align their net zero commitments to meet European regulations and standards
• Developing like roadmap to climate neutrality, strategies for dealing with unabated emission, applying carbon removal technology in the rail world, how is the regulation developing in this field
• Working with GBRTT to prepare UK rail businesses for the introduction of the Transition Plan Taskforce align economic growth, financial and environmental sustainability
• How are European operators and owners managing the implementation of EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive), reducing carbon and promoting energy efficient buildings

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