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Beautiful chart ... about pollution
I have been reading the report 'International Climate Policy for a Post-Kyoto World, Understanding Sectoral Approaches' by Jonas Meckling - Harvard University andGu Yoon Chung.
I was struck by this piece of art on the sectoral composition of GHG-emissions. Enjoy it, although it isn't about something very pleasant.
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frederic
On 4 May, 2009
Nicely worked out chart, no surprises however.
Some lessons could be learned out of the chart.
- transport by ship is many many times more effective then by truck. Almost 90% of the container/bulk transport is on the water, but it's part on CO2 is only 2.3% compared to 9.9% on road transport (offcourse not the whole road transport is container/bulk transport, I do think on road containertransport is responsible for half the fuelsoncumption on roads).
- Many will by surprised to see the amount of CO2 the cement and chemical industry needs, most underestimated is cement industry, cemtentproduction is very energydemanding.
- Electricity and heating of residential buildings can be halved if all people start to isolate there homes properly and take care of there electricity consumption.
- by stopping deforestation we could reduce our CO2 emmisions by almost 25% (18% of 77%) .
