Quantifying the global and distributional aspects of American household carbon footprint
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...For the imported portion of the footprint, Weber and Matthews (2008b) show uncertainty bounds representing a rest-of-world group modelled with German technology with PPP exchange rates (lower) and Chinese technology with MER exchange rates (upper) (see also the section on uncertainty further below)....
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...In this paper, we focus on the latter (personal transportation), the greatest individual contributor of CO2 emissions (26%) in the average American household [35]....
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...Researchers have identified three areas responsible for a majority of energy consumption in American households: home heating and cooling; shopping and eating (and the associated transportation of goods); and commuting, flying and other daily transportation activities [3,35]....
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...Finally, although carbon tracking is still an active form of research [35], a progress bar (or some other visual indicator) could be used to reveal total carbon emissions for the week....
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...A notable exception is the findings in a US study in which healthcare accounted for a relatively high proportion of CO 2 (Weber and Matthews 2008)....
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...…upstream in the production of goods and services purchased by UK households (Bastianoni et al. 2004; Bin and Dowlatabadi 2005; Jackson and Papathanasopoulou 2008; Jackson et al. 2006; Munksgaard and Pedersen 2001; Nijdam et al. 2005; Peters and Hertwich 2006; Peters 2008; Weber and Matthews 2008)....
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