Full value added tax on meat: A first step towards pricing the environmental damages caused by diets

A study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Nature Food analyzes the ecological "footprint" from ...
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Ecological footprint using seven example nations (IMAGE)

Ecological footprint using seven example nations: USA, Australia, Finland, UK, China and Nigeria. The numbers on the right indicate how many Earths would be required if everyone on Earth consumed ...
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UAE Government Institutions Urged To Lead by Example and Reduce 'Carbon Footprint'

The ‘Heroes of the UAE’ campaign is urging government institutions to lead by example and demonstrate ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Over the course of 2010, the campaign will work closely ...
The Conversation

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

Robert B. Richardson is affiliated with the International Society for Ecological Economics, and is currently President of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. Experts widely agree that human ...
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Vegan diet can halve your carbon footprint, study shows

Only around 1.1% of the world's population is vegan, but this percentage is growing. For example, in Germany the number of vegans approximately doubled between 2016 and 2020 to 2% of the population, ...
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Study illuminates the ecological footprint of health electronics

For the first time, researchers have systematically investigated the ecological footprint of wearables for the healthcare sector. The results show: It's not plastics, but the electronics themselves ...