Current Affairs Recession should reduce Czechs’ relatively high “environmental footprint”, says scientist

25-09-2009 16:40 | Ian Willoughby

The Czech Republic ranks 14th in the world in terms of per capita “ecological footprint”, according to a newly released report from the World Wide Fund for Nature. Ecological footprint is a measure of how much mankind’s energy consumption exhausts natural resources. It includes carbon footprint, which is based on CO2 emissions, as well as several other factors. I discussed the study’s findings with environmental scientist Viktor Třebický.

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