How to Use carbon footprint in a Sentence

carbon footprint

noun

• Then there’s the problem of the skiers themselves: Most of the carbon footprint in skiing comes from lodging and the cars and planes used to get to the resorts.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• Reducing the industry’s carbon footprint is what is taking more of the companies’ headspace.
  — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
• More importantly, the hybrid vessel is equipped with state-of-the-art tech engineered to reduce her carbon footprint.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2021
• The band Massive Attack has called for government guidelines to reduce the carbon footprint of concert tours.
  — Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2021
• All windows are made in regional facilities to support that geographic region's window style needs and to help reduce its carbon footprint.
  — Debbie Wolfe, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2022
• The term describes a cycle of repetitive, often anxious scrolling through endless feeds, where each swipe and refresh contributes to a growing digital carbon footprint.
  — Monica Sanders, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• Known as Scope 3 emissions, that consumer pollution accounts for 90% of the company's carbon footprint.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2022
• More important to Starbucks, however, is milk’s greenhouse gas emissions, which comprise more than one-fifth of the company’s global carbon footprint.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 2 Nov. 2024
• Subsides or carbon taxes could also improve prospects for yeast oils, since the carbon footprint of microbial oils is likely to be lower than palm oil cultivated on deforested land.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• The bigger the size, the bigger the carbon footprint, Goyke said.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2022
• And a lot less is known about the carbon footprint of this sort of farming.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
• Do customers care about the carbon footprint of menu items?
  — Jenna Schnuer, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• Then use the funds to reward those who maintain a low carbon footprint.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• That’s also when the state aims to zero out its carbon footprint.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• One of the grant’s conditions was for the city to devise and enact a way to reduce its carbon footprint.
  — cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• Looking to cut your carbon footprint or save some coin by opting out of high gas prices?
  — Car and Driver, 19 July 2022
• The city is designed to be traversable by foot or rail, with a low carbon footprint.
  — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2023
• This costs less and also helps shrink their carbon footprint by reducing the number of trucks and buses on the road.
  — Matthieu Larivée, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
• This also brings down the global carbon footprint on the tracker, so fewer discs need to be removed from the bag each turn.
  — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 June 2024
• So the carbon footprint is probably a little lighter on the E-edition.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
• After all, modern Y2K girls are just as conscious of their carbon footprint as the paw print of their pet Chihuahua.
  — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2022
• Divide that amount of gas by the number of people in the world, and that’s the fair amount of emissions – the size of the carbon footprint – that each individual should cause.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
• But some experts are looking at the carbon footprint of AI itself.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2023
• The company claims that the use of AI is helping cut down the carbon footprint of package delivery.
  — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fracking arose against the backdrop of the United States’ massive carbon footprint.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
• Hospitals, of course, are only one part of health care’s carbon footprint.
  — Time, 22 June 2023
• The kitchen also sources local seafood to reduce its carbon footprint.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• The creative leap Arnold took was to frame the carbon in buildings in terms of those carbon footprint items we have been told about for years—your flight to Europe is a ton of carbon!
  — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 27 Jan. 2023
• One method of reducing our carbon footprint is to adopt what is called a zero-waste lifestyle.
  — Lavonne Roberts, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• For instance, eating it twice a week instead of four times a week will shrink your carbon footprint by 25% and may also boost longevity.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024