Billionaires have carbon footprints hundreds of times higher than the average American. Two scholars tried to put a number on it.
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If the tourism minister is worried about the wider social, economic and environmental impacts of visitors, he’d be better off banning cruise ships, not backpackers.
This winter will see more outdoor socialising than ever before.
Supercomputing, frequent flying and powering up observatories: astronomy has an enormous carbon footprint.
As the UK heads into a recession, here are some simple - and cheap - tips to reduce utility bills and make less of an impact on the planet.
Recycling and turning off the lights are good steps towards a more sustainable society, but they are not nearly as important for the climate as reducing meat consumption, air travel and driving.
Our new research uncovered stark carbon inequality across the EU.
Try a few star jumps every hour, it’ll make a massive difference to your warmth.
South Africa’s well positioned to adopt electric vehicles but this isn’t a solution in itself because the vehicles would still depend on electricity generated from carbon-emitting coal power stations.
Supply chains can amount to four times an organisation’s own operational carbon footprint.
To be clear, I’m not advocating compulsory population control, here or anywhere. But we do need to consider a future with billions more people, many of them aspiring to live as Australians do now.
Households generate a large share of national greenhouse gas emissions and can take steps to reduce them.
Last year, it was estimated data centres around the world generated the same amount of carbon emissions as created by the global airline industry’s fuel usage.
Automation can be a more efficient use of resources, but it may also mean people consume more.
At current rates of reduction, the UK’s fair carbon budget will be spent in just four years’ time.
A triple-bottom-line approach can be used to evaluate health-care interventions, such as treatment for schizophrenia.
The typical American’s annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
The adverse environmental impacts of academic travel are known. It is now up to institutions to determine how to adapt to these impacts.
Zara, a fast-fashion clothing company, recently pledged to produce its line using only sustainable textiles. But it is not enough to curb the company’s significant impact on climate change.
If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.
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Professor of Sustainability Marketing, University of Surrey
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Doctorant en sciences de l'environnement, Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professeur, Eco-consulting, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Doctorante en science politique, Université de Montréal
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Honorary Researcher, Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer, Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering, Southampton Solent University
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Research Chair, Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Management, Keele University
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Reader in Geopolitical Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Researcher in Statistical Genetics and Pathogen Dynamics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Politics, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Media and Communications, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor & Chair of Eco-Entrepreneurship, McMaster University
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State
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Professeur junior en Santé et Changements Globaux, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL; Université Paris Dauphine – PSL