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- Environment & Ecology - by Enrique Cavalitto
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- Il totale dei gas a effetto serra prodotti da un singolo individuo, una singola organizzazione, evento, ecc. Si esprime in CO2 equivalente. Life-Cycle Assessment e ISO 14064 - by Sara Meservey
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- Il ritorno d'informazione per il consumatore viene migliorato grazie all'uso di contatori intelligenti, fatture energetiche più dettagliate o vari tipi di calcolatori. Nel Regno Unito, un calcolatore dell'impronta di carbonio fornirà ai consumatori una più chiara idea di come il loro consumo energetico incida sull'ambiente, nonché suggerimenti sui modi per ridurlo. - COM/2008/0011 def
 by Sara Meservey - La Commissione europea ha adottato una comunicazione che delinea il ruolo che le tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) dovrebbero svolgere per aumentare l'efficienza energetica e per ridurre l'impronta di carbonio dell'Europa. - Le scienze web news by Sara Meservey
- Siamo sopravvissuti all’ultima era interglaciale, quando il ghiaccio ricopriva gran parte dell’America del Nord e dell’Europa, e il livello dei mari era di 120 metri più alto rispetto ad oggi. Il primo passo è smettere di credere ciecamente che l’unica cosa che possiamo fare sia ridurre la nostra impronta di carbonio, e cominciare i preparativi per adattarci a quello che verrà.
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- Environment & Ecology - by Enrique Cavalitto
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- Carbon footprint measures total amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions from all sources are summed up and changed into units of CO2 equivalent which is used to standardize greenhouse gas emissions and help make comparisons from different time periods and across industries. Carbon emissions are usually measured in metric tons per year (1 metric ton equals 2204lbs). AltusLumen
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- With rises in the costs of fuel and widespread media coverage on the threats of global warming, reducing your carbon footprint is increasingly at the forefront of the sustainability agenda for consumer product manufacturers and retailers. - Carbon Footprint Consumer Products 2008 by
- Global climate change is one of humanity’s greatest challenges and one of the most important indicators that we are in ecological overshoot. Since the carbon footprint is 50 percent of humanity’s overall Ecological Footprint, reducing our carbon footprint is essential to ending ecological overshoot. - Global Footprint Network by
- Some companies have started to include footprints on their labeling. Carbon labels appeal to consumers who understand and monitor their own carbon footprints and want to support products that do the same. - HowStuffWorks, Inc. by
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