GO GREEN: BIGGER FOOTPRINT; sponsored by Environment Agency.OUR growing consumer society has seen our carbon emissions rise by a fifth, academics have found. Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. at York University York University, at North York, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1959 as an affiliate of the Univ. of Toronto, became independent 1965. looked at the carbon footprint of all the goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. consumed by British residents, including those imported from other countries. They found the amount of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions associated with consumption in the UK, such as producing and transporting products like clothes and electrical goods, increased by more than 115 million tonnes between 1992 and 2004. |
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