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Overseas goods push up Britains carbon footprint
2013-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: THE UK`s carbon footprint has grown by a tenth in the past two decades, the Westminster government`s climate advisers say. The amount of emissions the country has produced domestically, for example from transport, power, heating and manufacturing, has fallen by about 20 per cent over two decades, the committee on climate change said. But increased imports of goods, which create emissions during their manufacture in other countries, are pushing up the overall total of greenhouse gases for which...
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