When it comes to sustainable private transport, the 21st-century-bearer-of-hope number one is called electric car. Unprecedentedly efficient, locally pollution-free and silent, this technology will totally save the environment without compromising our comfort or convenience in the least. So we think. However, even the best technology requires raw materials, energy and industrial processes to ma...
Can you imagine the weight of 1.8 billion tonnes? I can't. I can only try to put this number in relation to others. 1.8 billion tonnes, that's the weight of all carbon emissions caused by private transport in 2009. 1,8 billion tonnes, that's 6,4% of the total carbon emissions from fuel combustion, emitted by all countries and all sectors in 2009 (see IEA's 2011 "highlights" report on CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, page 67). Sustainable Strategies: Drive Less, Use the Bus, Get an Electric Car 1,8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, blown in the atmosphere, that's what happens whe...
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comparative life cycle assessment
Corporate Social Responsibility
customer-driven sustainability
energy efficiency in production
Environmental Goods and Services Sector
environmental management system
environmental performance indicator
environmental product declaration
environmental profit and loss statement
Environmental Sustainability Index
Environmentally Harmful Subsidy
Environmentally Weighed Material Consumption
European Green Cars Initiative
European Sustainable Development Strategy
internalization of externalities
mechanical-biological treatment
OECD Environment Policy Committee
Online Resource Efficiency Platform OREP
Production-based CO2 Productivity
remuneration of environmental performance
renewable energy in manufacturing