Saturday, November 07, 2009

The Week In Green Numbers

24.6%

- global emissions caused by electricity and heat generation #

97%

- amount of the world's soy harvest used in animal feed #

500 hectares a day

- rate at which forests are being lost to soy plantations in Paraguay #

26,000 gallons

- amount of oil from the Exxon Valdez which remains trapped along the Alaskan coastline #

1,000

- number of disagreements over wording in the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty which remain, giving little hope of the treaty being signed in December #

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