Sentences with phrase «growth of carbon footprints»

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

This will limit the growth of our carbon footprint from today's 2 % to 3 % in 2050.»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe.

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In a world turned upside down, every community and every company measures their «carbon footprint» and tries to reduce emissions of a harmless, invisible gas that is essential for photosynthesis and the growth of plants.

Using the UN's «medium fertility» population growth rate projection and the assumed higher per capita carbon footprint plus the assumption that 50 % of the emitted CO2 will «remain» in the atmosphere, we arrive at an estimated atmospheric CO2 concentration of 640 ppmv by 2100.

Van der Veer went on to claim that the «well - to - wheels» carbon footprint of Canadian tar sand extraction — in which Shell is heavily invested, seeing 74 % profit growth in the second quarter of this year — was only 15 % higher than conventional sources of oil.

But as people have moved from the countryside to the cities, and as China's economic planners focus more on bolstering domestic consumption and moving away from export - led growth, income inequality has increased — along with the carbon footprint of those in urban areas.

One of the study's author's, Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, UK, says the growth in the carbon footprint of the urban middle class and the rich in China is a big problem that has to be tackled.