Sentences with phrase «global footprint puts»

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Many global companies with a footprint in the U.K. have been grappling with the same tough decision: stay put or move to protect their access to the EU in the event their current ability to conduct business, as well as hire European nationals, seamlessly across the 28 - member trading bloc becomes compromised post-Brexit.

«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.,.

To do this, we subtracted a country's ecological footprint (how much it takes from the environment) from its biocapacity (how much it puts back into the environment) to find its net biocapacity in global hectares per person.

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.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

My carbon footprint is a way of measuring my contribution to global warming, how heavy my foot is on the throat of Mother Nature (to put it in a very extreme way!).