noun phrase · neutral
carbon footprint
UK/ˈkɑːbən ˈfʊtprɪnt/US/ˈkɑːrbən ˈfʊtˌprɪnt/CAR·bon FOOT·print
the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by an activity, person, or product, measured as CO2 equivalent.
Examples
“By switching to a plant-based diet and using public transport, you can noticeably lower your carbon footprint.”
“Companies are publishing their carbon footprints to show transparency to consumers.”
“Reducing a product's carbon footprint often involves changes at every stage of production and distribution.”
Band 8 sentence
“If policymakers want long-term behavioural change, they should make it easy and affordable for households to reduce their carbon footprint.”
Collocations
- reduce someone's carbon footprint
- carbon footprint per capita
- product carbon footprint
Word family
Common mistakes
dấu chân carbon→lượng phát thải carbon / carbon footprint
carbon print→carbon footprint
Say it for a higher band
5pollution→6CO2 emissions→7+carbon footprint
Synonyms
CO2 footprint
ecological footprint
Easily confused
ecological footprint
“An ecological footprint measures how much land and water area a population requires to produce the resources it consumes.”
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