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Take a step by step systematic approach to help you and others at work reduce your organisation's carbon emissions.

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Explore the emerging ideas and debates about carbon

What's going on?
The world works in a similar way to people. People 'respire' in order to live...

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Carbohydrates
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Carbon Dioxide CO2
You eat carbohyrates to provide calories -
this 'fuels' what you do.		 Whatever you do, you burn the fuel and then breathe out carbon dioxide - a process called 'respiration' -
are you burning enough fuel?		 If you run too fast you will either run out of fuel, or run 'out of breath' -
because you have produced too much carbon dioxide.

While the world 'industrialises'...

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Fossil Fuels
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Carbon Dioxide CO2
We are burning up a lot of
the world's fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas -
this 'fuels' what we do.		 As we make and do more, we also burn more in the process called 'industrialisation', producing more carbon dioxide -
are we burning too much fuel?		 Carbon doxide is accumulating in the upper atmosphere, trapping warmer air below, so the whole world is warming up -
because we have produced too much carbon dioxide.

The process of burning fuels to make goods is our way of making life. But can we go on at this speed? We say we need to slow down, in order to provide a more sustainabe future. For more on this industrialisation, click Global Warming or other issues in left hand navigation bar. And find out Why we need to start counting carbon....

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