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A Review of Carbon Footprint Reduction in Construction Industry, from Design to Operation
Materials, 2021 Construction is among the leading industries/activities contributing the largest carbon footprint. This review paper aims to promote awareness of the sources of carbon footprint in the construction industry, from design to operation and management during
B. Sizirici +4 more
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Facilities management carbon footprints: an audit of critical elements of management and reporting [PDF]
, 2012 Concern for the environmental impact of organizations’ activities has led to the recognition and demand for organizations to manage and report on their carbon footprint.
Elmualim, Abbas, Kwawu, Wisdom
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Gastrointestinal endoscopy’s carbon footprint
Clinical Endoscopy, 2023 Climate change is a global emergency. Consequently, current global targets to combat the climate crisis include reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and keeping global temperature increases below 1.5 ˚C. In 2014, the healthcare carbon footprint was 5.5% of the total national footprint. Gastrointestinal endoscopy (GIE) has a large carbon footprint
Su Bee Park, Jae Myung Cha
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A comprehensive review on carbon footprint of regular diet and ways to improving lowered emissions
Results in Engineering, 2023 In light of the SDG goals, carbon emissions from different food and food-related products have been under serious scrutiny in recent years. Despite the increasing awareness of global warming and the carbon footprint issue, food culture in different ...
H. Nabipour Afrouzi +4 more
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Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?
Agriculture, 2022 In the face of a changing climate, intensive efforts are needed for limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C. Agricultural production has the potential to play an important role in mitigating climate change.
M. Holka, J. Kowalska, M. Jakubowska
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Carbon footprint and water footprint of electric vehicles and batteries charging in view of various sources of power supply in the Czech Republic [PDF]
, 2019 In the light of recent developments regarding electric vehicle market share, we assess the carbon footprint and water footprint of electric vehicles and provide a comparative analysis of energy use from the grid to charge electric vehicle batteries in ...
Burchart-Korol, Dorota +2 more
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Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2021 Effluent treatment plants act as the last line of defense against the discharge of pollutants from industrial effluents. The higher resource consumption, variety of dyes, and auxiliary chemicals used for textile manufacturing classify it as a highly ...
S. Mohan, Ninad Oke, D. Gokul
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The $^{13}$Carbon footprint of B[e] supergiants [PDF]
, 2010 We report on the first detection of $^{13}$C enhancement in two B[e] supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Stellar evolution models predict the surface abundance in $^{13}$C to strongly increase during main-sequence and post-main sequence evolution ...
A. Liermann +30 more
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Green Algorithms: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Computation
Advancement of science, 2020 Climate change is profoundly affecting nearly all aspects of life on earth, including human societies, economies, and health. Various human activities are responsible for significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including data centers and other ...
Loïc Lannelongue, J. Grealey, M. Inouye
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The carbon footprint of ambulatory gastrointestinal endoscopy
Endoscopy, 2022 Background Endoscopy is considered the third highest generator of waste within healthcare. This is of public importance as approximately 18 million endoscopy procedures are performed yearly in the USA and 2 million in France.
J. Lacroute +12 more
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