Sentences with phrase «of the carbon footprint of»

UB already sources responsibly and was one of the first companies to switch to the sourcing of sustainable palm oil, but is mindful that more than half of the carbon footprint of its products comes from its supply chain.

The UK Space Agency has provided a grant to support the project, which will look at human behaviour through analysis of the carbon footprint of homes and schools alongside the monitoring of changes in polar ice using Earth Observation data.

There is little information available about what the building is made of, and no accounting of the carbon footprint of its materials and construction, so it is hard to really determine at what point this «zero carbon» building overcomes the carbon debt of its construction, but I suspect it will be a while.

Do you have detailed knowledge of the carbon footprints of scientists and politicians, etc?

Lamont director Sean Solomon added, «Seventy percent of the carbon footprint of the Lamont Campus currently comes from our electricity usage, so developing these two solar farms is the largest single step we can take to reduce that footprint.

I have often seen huge differences in estimates of the carbon footprint of nuclear power, ranging from 2 to 288 g CO 2 e / kWh.

5) Easier disposal than bottles According to South Africa's The Company of Wine People, wine pouches consume about 20 % of the energy for production that a glass bottle does and has around 20 % of the carbon footprint of glass (Tetra Paks use only about 5 % of the energy of a glass bottle and has 5 % the CO2 footprint).

Full Grown furniture is estimated to have only one - quarter of the carbon footprint of conventionally mass - made furnishings.

In his book» Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air» David JC MacKay has a detailed presentation of the carbon footprints of air travel.

1 Air travel is usually the largest component of the carbon footprint of frequent flyers.

Already in December 2013, he published an analysis of the carbon footprint of the bitcoin network telling that bitcoin footprint is a «clear and present danger» to Earth and called on the bitcoin community to change algorithms or to «shift allegiances to a cryptocurrency that is ecologically sustainable».

Not exact matches

«Sustainability is part of the Electrolux business strategy and we are dedicated to innovate for more sustainable products and to reduce our carbon footprint,» Henrik Sundstrom, vice president, sustainability at Electrolux, said.

Siemens has been a leader in cutting the company's carbon footprint and a strong supporter of apprenticeship programs that train students for next - generation manufacturing jobs.

Get ahead of the «going green» curve by showing your customers, many of whom want to reduce their own carbon footprints, that you are also doing your part.

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.

Indeed, the company claims the carbon footprint of one of its suborbital flights will be less than that of a one - way flight from London to New York.

Daniel Klier, HSBC's head of strategy, told the FT that HSBC would «disclose [its] carbon footprint and stress test [its] lending book against carbon pricing.»

The intention behind this project, of course, falls in line with the rest of Elon Musk's grandeur vision: to help lesson the carbon footprint of the world.

Lastly, the carbon footprint of our products was just 10 percent of the footprint of food sold in the typical glass jar.

While acknowledging the planet is warming, Pruitt has questioned the gravity of the problem and the need for regulations that require companies to take costly measures to reduce their carbon footprint.

Some of the world's largest and most successful companies signed pledges to greatly reduce their carbon footprints heading into the meeting.

You'll be able to invest in a class of shares of ExxonMobil that has exposure only to a carbon - neutral footprint.

Add to that companies looking to cut travel budgets — and lower their carbon footprint — and you have the perfect combination of factors pushing online meetings into widespread use.

You're not supporting the manufacturing (and subsequent carbon footprint) of a brand new product or the location and transportation costs (both financial and environment - impacting) to get it to your front door.

Conducting a carbon footprint analysis reveals the full spectrum of your company's environmental impact and helps you address it.

In some cases, Apple uses traditional energy sources, then buys an equal amount of renewable energy in an effort to offset its carbon footprint.

So Shepherd had to come up with a method for taking the salt out of sea water with boilers and kettles but without incurring the bloated carbon footprint of fossil fuels, which would betray the green ideals of his customer base.

In the report, the researchers sought to measure how organizations with sustainability programs fare»» not in terms of how effective they are at reducing their carbon footprint, but rather how effective they are at boosting company profits and improving employee relations.

The move is part of an ongoing effort by Anheuser - Busch (bud) to reduce its carbon footprint.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

We acknowledge that, despite making significant strides in the areas under our direct control, there is work to be done to reduce the carbon footprint of our supply chain — and Apple has accepted its responsibility to lead that effort.

Reducing the carbon footprint of the Alberta oil sands, and securing Alberta's economic success in a lower carbon world are key objectives.

The carbon footprint of a given barrel of oil over any other was not really on the political map when Chrétien was changing the tax code to finance a mine and Klein was rewriting the royalty regime to make it easier to expand the industry.

The biggest carbon footprint of any oil is a barrel of oil sands bitumen.

Growing concern about climate change and the election of Barack Obama mean that the enormous carbon footprint of the oil sands may eventually become a cost to producers.

Unifor attempted to enter evidence that building Kinder Morgan would cost jobs; shipping out unprocessed solid bitumen to refineries in other countries ships out Canadian jobs at the same time and increases the carbon footprint of the product.

In a press release by PETA, the animal rights group noted that in discussions with Tesla, PETA pointed out the possibility for the electric car company to reduce its carbon footprint through the usage of vegan leather.

To ensure the fund had a low - carbon footprint, NUBD excludes issuers in sectors having high levels of fossil - fuel reserve ownership — which includes metals miners and oil and gas producers.

I know it's a cliche and it's rather personal, but it takes away the carbon footprint of an entire human!

«A company might be faulted for its dealings with significant external forces, such as nonuniform and volatile state and regional regulations, or the rapidly evolving science related to management of its carbon footprint, such as the cost and feasibility of carbon sequestration technology.

When someone moves from one of these countries to Canada, and adopts a Canadian lifestyle, their «carbon footprint» - the amount of carbon they use in their daily lives - would be expected to increase.

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

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

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.

«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to take immediate action to create green jobs and incentivize environmental excellence by reinvesting in projects which actually lower the carbon footprint of our public sector.»

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to use the Pacific Carbon Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of our schools and hospitals instead of giving handouts to big polluters like Encana.»

The most prominent example might be the divestiture of companies that are involved in the expansion of mankind's carbon footprint, i.e. the Energy Sector.

It also gives fleet managers a better view of their fleets» carbon footprint, as well as provides a great indication of their fleets» environmental sustainability.