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Article: Carbon emissions: a merchant's approach
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- June 1, 2008
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CARBON EMISSIONS HAVE BECOME THE LATEST FOCUS within an industry already concerned with proving its environmental credentials to a growing number of interested parties and stakeholders, from environmental lobby groups and campaigners, to printers, publishers, designers and end-users. Now that more is being understood about the effect of carbon emissions on climate change, the debate has moved on from simply offsetting carbon emissions, to carbon management and reduction.
The first step is for a company to understand and measure its carbon footprint, and we do this in various ways:
* Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to accurately determine the current carbon footprint
* Identification of ...