Sentences with phrase «larger ecological footprint»

However, many argue that while it does take quite a bit of water to produce, drinking cow's milk has a much larger ecological footprint.

It's no surprise that the richest 1 per cent have large ecological footprints.

So, which countries are rich in environmental resources and don't have large ecological footprints?

If you're concerned with the environment, having a large ecological footprint is a big negative.

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In the global view, then, the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is the sole reason that humankind's ecological footprint is larger than Earth itself.

For cafes interested in getting involved, GCN provides personalized consulting services to help owners reduce their ecological footprints, enhance and streamline their operations, and set a visible good example of environmental responsibility for the community at large.

We began by looking at total resource consumption to see which countries have the largest (and smallest) ecological footprints.

Switzerland has a large carbon footprint as a percentage of total Ecological footprint, particularly compared to other European countries.

The cropland and forest Footprints were the largest components of India's overall Ecological Footprint until the late 1980s, when the carbon Footprint exceeded the forest Footprint, and the late 2000s, when carbon exceeded the cropland Footprint.

Carbon emissions are a large driver of the region's high Ecological Footprint.

Regardless of allocation method, however, the largest reductions in Ecological Footprint can most commonly be achieved by reducing the total amount of materials consumed, rather than attempting to recycle them afterwards.

A second Ecological Footprint study was published in 2013, with a special focus on the Laguna Lake Region, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the country.

Calgary, the largest city in Alberta, Canada, was the first city to develop specific Ecological Footprint reduction targets.

TreeHugger: With entire economies based on selling oil and natural gas to fund massive, rapid growth and a per capita ecological footprint larger than the United States, the United Arab Emirates is currently one of the most unsustainable places in the world.

They will also have the opportunity to look at climate change and GHG from a unique angle: they will discover that carbon emissions make up the largest component of the Ecological Footprint (globally and in most countries), and will start thinking of carbon emissions in relation to the area of forestland required to absorb them.