GO GREEN: BIGGER FOOTPRINT; sponsored by Environment Agency

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 8, 2008

OUR growing consumer society has seen our carbon emissions rise by a fifth, academics have found. Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute at York University looked at the carbon footprint of all the goods and services consumed by British residents, including those imported from other countries.

They found the amount of carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption in the UK, such as producing and transporting products like clothes and electrical goods, increased by more than 115 million tonnes between 1992 and 2004.