carbon footprint and reduction strategies

• Define carbon footprint

  a measure of the amount of greenhouse gases released over the full life cycle of something
• measuring total carbon footprint can be really hard or even impossible
• Name 6 strategies to reduce carbon footprint

  taxing companies based on emissions

  renewable energy sources

  carbon capture

  putting a cap on emissions

  more efficient processes to conserve energy

  biofuels
• Give two reasons why it might be difficult for countries to agree on reducing carbon footprint.

  May impact countries economic growth

  hard to make international agreements