carbon footprint

短语
B2 大学

n. 碳足迹, 一个计算二氧化碳的新词, 也称作“碳排放”

发音

US

词形变化

carbon footprints 复数 carbon footprints

教材释义与例句

名词

碳排放量；碳足迹

名词

碳足印；炭足迹；碳脚印

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.

    碳足印

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary