How It's Used

“The health of future generations also could be affected, environmentalists have warned. The trees in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest absorb the greenhouse gases that many scientists believe contribute to global warming.”

—Katherine Ellison, “Brazil’s economy could give people in U.S. a bit of a jolt in ’99: Jobs, investments, the environment, tourism. The nations’ links are many,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2, 1999, p. A3.

"The organisation is working with the Carbon Trust to investigate the carbon footprint of a specific product - the Co-operative's premium brand Truly Irresistible strawberry. The trust will look at whether its footprint is larger for in-season strawberries transported from Scotland or when they are flown into the UK during the out-of-season months.

"Food miles, as a concept, is 'dead in the water,' Shearlock says. 'The conventional logic is that flying goods from Africa is bad. But on average a Kenyan will use one third of a tonne of CO2 compared with 11 tonnes of CO2 in Holland when growing roses in greenhouses. It is massively different and there is low production of greenhouse gases coming from African fruit and produce as they are grown beneath the sun.'"

—Murray Armstrong, "Care to comment: The latest Mori poll into attitudes to corporate responsibility shows environmental considerations are now top priority," The Guardian (UK), November 5, 2007.

"The local food, or locavore, movement has so much momentum that some of the food glitterati have declared that such food is better than organic.

"But now comes a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, who have started asking provocative questions about the carbon footprint of food. Those questions threaten to undermine some of the feel-good locavore story line, not to mention my weekend forays for produce. (A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact of human activities on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced.)"

—Andrew Martin, "If It's Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener?" The New York Times, December 9, 1997.

"Mr. Baird said Canada cannot meet its targets of reducing greenhouse gases if it does not compel capture and storage of the substances in the two key industries of coal-fired electricity and oil sands. Oil sands production alone is expected to create 25 per cent of Canada's carbon-dioxide emissions by 2020, up from the current level of about 18 per cent."

—Brian Laghi, "Tough new green plan targets oil sands; Regulations, which also apply to coal-fired power plants, would force future projects to store greenhouse-gas emissions underground," The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2008, p. A1.

"In the long run, if governments don't take stronger policy action, rising consumption of fossil energy will drive up emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, putting the world on track for an eventual global temperature increase of up to 6 degrees Celsius. At the global level we will need to use all of our energy options simultaneously. We need to combine greater energy efficiency with increased deployment of renewable and nuclear energy, while minimizing our dependence on using oil, gas, and coal in an unsustainable way."

—Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, "The Coming Supply Crunch," Foreign Policy, September/October 2009, p. 105.

Also Known As (AKA)

Greenhouse Gases

Links

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Wikipedia article on Greenhouse Gas