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How To Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Bureau

GHG inventories also apply to products whereby the climatic impact of a product is calculated over its lifecycle – from the product’s design to end-of-life waste processing. . For instance, once in the atmosphere, CH 4 reacts with ozone, a reaction that increases the GWP of CH 4 by ~ 50%.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Eighteen of the 19 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.