Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Week In Green Numbers

20,000

- number of people receiving compensation this month in the Ivory Coast after toxic waste was dumped from a ship there in 2006. Trafigura denies responsibility #

9.3%

- fall in the sales of cod in the UK #

4°C

- temperature above normal of Canada's winter this year #

3

- countries which rely on the highly polluted Lake Victoria for drinking water #

28%

- growth in air freight this year #

$1.2 million

- amount of money saved by Ford just by turning off computers when they're not in use #

2 miles long & 1½ miles wide

- size of the disputed island in the Bay of Bengal which has now been wiped off the map #

8.6%

- reduction in the UK's greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 #

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