Resource sheet B

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Sources of CO2 emissions (1995): Energy Industry 36%, Transport 27%, Industry 21%, Households and Service Sector 15%.

Sources of CO2 emissions (1999): Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK, USA, Japan and Russia are responsible for 48.7% of all CO2 emissions.

Inefficient cars: Only 15–20% of the energy made from burning petrol reaches the wheels as drive power.

Inefficient electrical power: 50% of the energy created from burning fossil fuels is wasted at the power station and 10% is lost during transmission. Non-energy efficient appliances may lose up to 38% of the energy supplied.

Inefficient industry: It takes on average, 30 tonnes of resources to produce every 1 tonne of finished product.

The USA receives more energy in the form of sunlight in 40 minutes than it does from all of the fossil fuels it burns in 12 months.

93% of the materials used in manufacturing are wasted and 80% of all products are discarded after only one use.

Foodmiles: The 26 items in a sample UK shopping basket had travelled a total of 241,000 km.

Fair shares: 20% of the World’s population consume 60% of the World’s resources.

World population: 2.5 billion in 1950, 6 billion in 2000, 9.3 billion in 2050 (estimate).

Each year, the average family in the UK creates 8 tonnes of CO2 from the production, processing, packaging and distribution of their food, compared to 4.2 tonnes from their house, and 4.4 tonnes from their car.

In 1960, total CO2 emissions stood at 2,576 million tonnes p.a. By 2000, the total stood at 6,400 million tonnes p.a.

Car numbers (UK): 1970 10 million, 2002 24 million.

Sea freight creates 6 times less CO2 than road freight and 50 times less than air freight.

Between 1990 and 2000, the world lost 94 million hectares of forests. The current rate of loss stands at 13 million hectares per year.

Between 1986 and 1996, the average distance driven to the shops in the UK increased from 14 to 22 km.