Carbon+footprints+2010

--A Carbon Footprint is a measurement of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization, or location at a given time. 1. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of [|CO2] from the burning of fuels including domestic energy consumption and transportation (e.g. car and plane). 2. The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we use - those associated with their manufacture and eventual breakdown. --Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities and the way you live your life.Carbon foot prints are a big part in global warming they effect it a lot, and shouldn't just be thought of as a no big deal. ([])

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 * ====There are many groups and businesses that their main goal is to help regular people cut down their own carbon footprint or just to help out the earth and become more green. One of these groups is CRC. CRC stands for Carbon Reduction Commitment. They are a UK mandatory cap and trade scheme proposed to cut carbon emissions by 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year by 2020. "The key is energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions. Organisations will have to devise a carbon abatement strategy, consider energy efficient measures, monitor, assess and manage their carbon emissions" ([]) Another group was GPP, the Green Public or Private Procurement. An individual, nation, or organization's carbon footprint can be measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it by technological developments, better process and product management.====

__WHAT ARE GREENHOUSE EFFECTS? AND WHAT IS THE HISTORY?__ The ideas behind greenhouse gases and climate change were first stated and founded by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who claimed that an increase in fossil fuel combustion would lead to global warming. The greenhouse effect is caused by an atmosphere containing gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system, causing heating at the surface of the planet or moon. __HISTORY OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS__ ...Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French Mathematician and Physicist. He is credited with the discovery in his essay in 1827 that gases in the atmosphere might increase the surface temperature of the Earth. This was the effect that would later be called the Greenhouse Effect. ...Tesco, one of the world's leading international retailers, based out of UK will help its customers make effective green choices through innovative carbon footprint profiling of the products they sell. The carbon footprint will account for the carbon calculation from production, through distribution to consumption. Just as the nutritional profile is listed, carbon foot print profile will be listed. __COUNTRIES WITH THE TOP ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (2008)__ A recent study (October 2008) ranks the top ten countries with the highest ecological footprint per head as: ([]) ||  ||   ||
 * 1) United Arab Emirates
 * 2) United States
 * 3) Kuwait
 * 4) Denmark
 * 5) Australia
 * 6) New Zealand
 * 7) Canada
 * 8) Norway
 * 9) Estonia
 * 10) Ireland.