Sentences with phrase «global carbon footprints»

It sheds light on the need to consider the specific properties of wetlands in global carbon footprints.

This study, coordinated by researchers from the GET (IRD, OMP, CNRS, CNES, UPS) and EPOC laboratories (OASU, CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1) and published in the journal Nature, changes the order for global carbon footprints.

Long food supply chains are actually far from a simple matter because they tie into a number of social and environmental issues, including the global carbon footprint, product quality and sustainability, too.

«Carbon footprinting was a new subject area for ICON and the Carbon Trust has provided valuable support in getting us off the ground with our first global carbon footprint.

In addition, tourism's global carbon footprint increased from 3.9 to 4.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide between 2009 and 2013.

You mention the «global carbon footprint».

If exports grow, the region's global carbon footprint will only intensify.

Not exact matches

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

A new US study charting a 64 - year fall in the carbon footprint of producing milk in the country, reflects wider global success in adopting sustainable milk production, according to one national dairy association.

Global warming, greenhouse gases and carbon footprint have become household terms, and consumer groups, government agencies, and businesses are working on ways to preserve the land, air, water and other natural resources.

In a break with all but two nations across the world, President Donald Trump announced today that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a historic agreement to lessen the country's carbon footprint in an attempt to fight the global effects of climate change.

Another great carbon footprint calculator is available at EarthLab.com, an online «climate crisis community» that has partnered with Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and other high - profile groups, companies and celebrities to spread the word that individual actions can make a difference in the fight against global warming.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

It's now commonplace to talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's climate.

NativeEnergy, which works with individuals and organizations to help them compensate for their contributions to global warming, calculated the «carbon footprint» from producing the film, including all travel, office, and accommodations related emissions.

In urban environments, green roofs help attract the birds and butterflies and provide cleaner air, offsetting our carbon footprint and helping combat global warming.

Full electrification would be the ultimate goal as we try reduce our carbon footprints down to acceptable levels with respect to the global environment.

«We're very proud that since Nissan LEAF launched in 2010, we've been able to put more than 300,000 zero - emission electric vehicles on the road worldwide, helping to reduce carbon footprints around the globe,» said Daniele Schillaci, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Sales, Zero Emission Vehicle and Battery Business; Chairman of Management Committee for Japan / A & O (Japan, Asia, Oceania Business); Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.,.

Developed by State Street Global Exchange, State Street's data and analytics business, ESGX will provide clients with a web platform through which they can assess ESG factor exposure in their portfolios, such as a company's carbon footprint, the type of labor used in a supply chain, and board diversity statistics.

Seek to maintain global stock exposure while reducing the carbon footprint of an investment portfolio

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The concept of carbon neutrality and measuring carbon footprints first began in Costa Rica, recognized as a global leader in sustainable practices.

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Decreasing greenhouse gases and our carbon footprint will slow the rate of global warming, but it will not fully resolve the problem of global warming.

A new study, The carbon footprint of global tourism, is causing a stir, with news sources writing headlines like Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than thought, study says or Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estiglobal tourism, is causing a stir, with news sources writing headlines like Global tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than thought, study says or Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estiGlobal tourism's carbon footprint is four times bigger than thought, study says or Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estimated.

I am very glad Mr Bloombergy have so strong concern about global warming and New York city's carbon footprint problems and take some stritage to solve them.

Global shipping isn't yet counted as part of a nation's carbon footprint.

Why are we not hearing the global warming - carbon footprint folks grumble about two coal fired plants being commissioned weekly in China.

Read on for the comment I just posted on the piece, by Katie Herzog *, which hailed the prospect of fewer hills, less traffic and a benefit when it comes to global warming: «Yes, it's stressful to know that you're going to die in one of Seattle's 30,000 predicted landslides, but look on the bright side: The carbon footprint of your lifeless body sliding downhill is zero.»

Another course participant, Matt Briggs, who is a wild mushroom seller and Near - Net - Zero Retrofit house owner and the writer, director, and producer of the documentary Deep Green - Solutions to Stop Global Warming Now «was waiting for the affordable Model 3 to plug into my 10kw solar roof so I can finally almost eliminate my carbon footprint for coal electricity, natural gas heat, and now oil transport.»

Nearly 20 years ago, when it wasn't very popular and nobody knew what a carbon footprint was and nobody talked about global warming, I did put a ten kilowatt wind turbine on the island.

If we accept that humans are at the root of global warming then dealing with the problem at its root would seem to suggest the most efficient way to reduce humanity's carbon footprint would be to reduce humanity.

Those processes and practices by Think Eco-Logical are intended to help get data centers and IT businesses through the down economy by saving them money, as well as help the global climate crisis by shrinking the giant carbon footprint of the industry.

We're dismayed over the fact that the Global Warming fiasco has become politically popular and expedient to those left - wing politicians and power - brokers whose sole aim is to literally tax everything with a carbon footprint and give them control over all life, hidden within their PC guileful pretence to save the planet.

The total carbon footprint of its global operations was 3.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over 2017/2018, a reduction of 13 percent on the previous year, and a full 26 percent on 2015.

In the U.S., several states are firm in their commitment to fight global warming by reducing their carbon footprint, while Europe as a whole is committed to closing a number of its coal plants.

The nation's demand for food, timber and carbon dioxide absorption now exceeds what the nation's ecosystems can renew over the full year, according to Global Footprint Network's 2015 National Footprint Accounts.

Cutting the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint in half would #movethedate of Overshoot Day by 89 days.

Other gases that contribute to global warming — such as methane from waste — are converted into «carbon equivalent» units then added to the carbon footprint.

The study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, compiled data on 160 different countries to arrive at a global estimate of the tourism industry's carbon footprint.

It found that between 2009 and 2013, that footprint grew from about 3.5 to 4.5 billion metric tons of CO2 annually, accounting for about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, or more than triple the annual carbon emissions of Brazil.

Scientists from Australia, Taiwan and Indonesia who explored the link between leisure and global warming report in the journal Nature Climate Change how they calculated the carbon footprint of the tourism business, in what must be one of the most complex studies of the global holiday sector ever undertaken.

It helps big energy companies lower their carbon footprints and capture an even larger share of a shrinking global carbon budget.

Oakland, CA, USA, and Zurich, Switzerland — Global Footprint Network, an expert in natural resource accounting, announced an agreement with carbon footprinting provider South Pole Group to strengthen their respective offerings by collaborating on comprehensive climate and carbon impact assessment services for sovereign bond investors.

Working together, South Pole Group and Global Footprint Network aim to further their common objectives of supporting the wider disclosure of carbon exposure of investor portfolios and mobilising investors and policymakers to act to minimise climate change.

This disagreement ties into the debate over man - made global warming, because if the Current Warm Period is not that unusual, then man - made global warming could be either (1) superimposed over considerable «natural global warming» or (2) non-existent (in which case global warming would have nothing to do with our «carbon footprint»).

In 2009 Girl Scouts in San Francisco gave away 5000 CFL light bulbs to raise awareness about energy conservation and to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint in order to abate global warming.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

I only found out about Ecotricity today, and am shocked (though I shouldn't be) that what's happening here clearly demonstrates that «global warming» can't be the real issue, or corporations like EDF would realise that what they are doing ultimately (when actual costs are counted), is increasing their carbon footprint (just think of all the people, documents, transportation that are needed over the course of a court - case).