Tourism needs to reduce emissions in line with other economic sectors, if the international
community's objective of staying global warming at 1.5°-2.0° C is to be achieved. This will …

Within the context of Earth's limited natural resources and assimilation capacity, the current
environmental footprint of humankind is not sustainable. Assessing land, water, energy …

Humanity faces the challenge of how to achieve a high quality of life for over 7 billion people
without destabilizing critical planetary processes. Using indicators designed to measure a …

CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the primary cause of global warming.
Much attention has been focused on the CO2 directly emitted by each country, but relatively …

The term'carbon footprint'has become tremendously popular over the last few years and is
now in widespread use across the media-at least in the United Kingdom. With climate …

This article proposes a revised definition of the circular economy after having analyzed and
compared the most prominent related concepts. Based on an analysis of academic …

Human activities are causing Earth's sixth major extinction event—an accelerating decline of
the world's stocks of biological diversity at rates 100 to 1,000 times pre-human levels …

The interest in consumption-based emission and resource accounting has grown
significantly. Many studies juxtapose consumer emissions (carbon footprint) and producer …

In recent years, attempts have been made to develop an integrated Footprint approach for
the assessment of the environmental impacts of production and consumption. In this paper …

Under the United National Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) countries
are required to submit National Emission Inventories (NEI) to benchmark reductions in …