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1.  ''Environmental policy - carbon footprint - construction - infrastructure.''
A desire to hold money to allow an individual or firm to take advantage of potential investments which offer a higher rate of return.
 
In the context of buildings and other physical infrastructure, residual carbon is the carbon footprint remaining after all feasible methods for reducing carbon impacts have been reasonably exhausted.
 
A net zero carbon balance can then be achieved by purchasing offsets for the appropriate amount of residual carbon.
 
The amount of offsets purchased should be published.
 
(UK Green Building Council.)
 
 
2.  ''Environmental policy - carbon footprint.''
 
Similar measures in other contexts.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Liquidity preference]]
* [[Carbon offsetting]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Embodied carbon]]
* [[Emissions]]
* [[Environmental concerns]]
* [[Greenhouse gas]]
* [[Infrastructure]]
* [[Net zero]]
* [[Operational carbon]]
* [[Renewables]]
* [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]
 
 
==External link==
 
[https://www.ukgbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Net-Zero-Carbon-Buildings-A-framework-definition.pdf Net Zero Carbon buildings - UK Green Building Council]

Revision as of 14:30, 9 June 2016

A desire to hold money to allow an individual or firm to take advantage of potential investments which offer a higher rate of return.


See also