A definition of “carbon footprint”

作者: Tommy Wiedmann , Jan Minx

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摘要: The term'carbon footprint'has become tremendously popular over the last few years and is now in widespread use across the media-at least in the United Kingdom. With climate change high up on the political and corporate agenda, carbon footprint calculations are in demand. Numerous approaches have been proposed to provide estimates, ranging from basic online calculators to sophisticated life-cycle-analysis or input-output based methods and tools. Despite its ubiquitous use however, there is an apparent lack of academic …

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