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Carbon Counts

Some examples of how people and organisations 'count carbon'..

1	Have you noticed that the new Climate Change Bill looks remarkably like the ASPO Oil Protocol ? The proposed CO₂ annual reduction of around 2.5% is roughly the same as the expected decline in global oil production capacity. More in 'Target'

2	It has been calculated that in the US between 1994 and 2002, about a million extra tonnes of fat was added to the collective american skeleton. As fat is about 3/4 carbon, this means US citizens 'sequestered' nearly three million tonnes of carbon dioxide about their person (US emits about 1500mt in total). More on calculation from New Scientist. More in 'Fat'
3	Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Food Waste Report estimates that we discard 1/3 of the food we buy, equal to 6.7 mt of carbon (Food Waste pdf p4). Food production, processing, distribution and storage accounts for about 20% of all GHG emissions. If food waste was reduced to zero, there would be a saving of about 7% of all UK GHGs. More in "Sustainable Food" - another EP@W site.
4	Christian Aid have calculated that the UK 'carbon footprint' is not 2% but 12-15% of global total.
	Virgin boss Branson says: "Airlines can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 25% in 2 years". His Pendolino trains advertise in March 2007 as: "emit 76% less CO2 than cars and planes."
	According to Delft Hydraulics, every tonne of palm oil results in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide - about a third lost from the drained peat bogs and the rest because forests have been burnt to make way for the plantations. That is 10 X more than petrol produces. There are 2 billion tons of CO₂ lost like this in Indonesia and Malaysia - about 8 percent of the globe's fossil fuel emissions.

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