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what is carbon?
Carbon (C) is an element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond.
Carbon emissions (i.e. carbon dioxide) are generated by human activities that burn
fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas for energy, heat, and transportation.
There are two types of carbon:
1. Embodied Carbon
Manufacturing, Transportation, Construction
2. Operational Carbon
Day-to-Day Consumption, User Footprint, Maintenance
Carbon dioxide concentrations are rising mostly because of the fossil
fuels that people are burning for energy. Fossil fuels, like coal and
oil, contain carbon that plants pull out of the atmosphere through
photosynthesis over many million years; we are returning the carbon to
the atmosphere in just a few hundred.
Since the middle of the 20th century, annual emissions from burning
fossil fuels have increased every decade, from close to 11 billion tons of
carbon dioxide per year in the 1960s to an estimated 36.6 billion tons in
2023 according to the Global Carbon Budget 2023.
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