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Turkey’s Euro 2024 team has come under fire from environmentalist groups for taking a charter flight and not other means of transport for the 150 kilometre journey from their Hanover base to the final group match in Hamburg on Wednesday. “This is completely nonsensical and unnecessary,” said Werner Reh from Germany’s Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND). Reh said that carbon emission was 10-20 times higher than if they had taken the train for the game against the Czech Republic. René Schwartz, spokesman of a regional initiative calling for a reduction of air traffic po…

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