The Carbon Footprint of Capital

Published by the Yale School of Forestry

We think of capital, the assets we use in production, as heavy: machines, buildings, infrastructure, trucks and railroads. Being composed mostly of cement and steel, we would expect their production to cause a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. In a…

Read the full article at: http://environment.yale.edu/blog/2017/02/the-carbon-footprint-of-capital/

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