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A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carbon cost
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ecological footprint
Coined in a 1999 BBC Vegetarian Good Food article and after the 1990s term ecological footprint and popularized by a 2005 advertising campaign for fossil-fuel company BP in order to shift blame for climate change onto individual consumers. Modelled after the ecological footprint concept developed in the 1990s.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
碳足印
(tànzúyìn)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Chinese Mandarin:
碳足跡 /碳足迹
(tànzújì)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Czech:
uhlíková stopa
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Estonian:
süsiniku jalajälg
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Finnish:
hiilijalanjälki
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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French:
empreinte carbone
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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German:
Kohlenstoff-Fußabdruck
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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German:
CO2-Fußabdruck
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Hungarian:
karbonlábnyom
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Hungarian:
szénlábnyom
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Irish:
lorg carbóin
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Italian:
ecoimpronta
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Japanese:
カーボンフットプリント
(kābonfuttopurinto)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Korean:
탄소 발자국
(tanso baljaguk)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Polish:
ślad węglowy
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Portuguese:
pegada de carbono
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Russian:
углеро́дный след
(ugleródnyj sled)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Spanish:
huella de carbono
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Swedish:
koldioxidavtryck
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Turkish:
karbon ayak izi
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
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Ukrainian:
вуглеце́вий слід
(vuhlecévyj slid)
— measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone
