Carbon Footprints

The Guardian published an article on Feb 6 2006 for schools.

It gave the following web links that might be of interest...

List of countries and their actual emissions

The bottom line on co2, methane and water vapor from the BBC

Animation on the carbon cycle

Carbon calculator

Solutions

Fascinating calculations of embodied energy and carbon footprint of a cheeseburger

Carbon offsetting

Defra

Carbon capture

posters

e digest of env stats - DEFRA

stats - NSO

Facts:

• the average British footprint is 11,000kg of co2 per annum
• this must, it is argued, reduce to 2,500kg