| Carbon dioxide gas (CO2), one of the most abundant | | | | atmosphere, there is a crucial need to find some |
| gasses in the atmosphere is however vital for life on | | | | climate change solution. |
| earth but in today's time of industrialization, the gas is a | | | | There are many and varied climate change solution |
| culprit causing ‘Global Warming', a condition in | | | | that we can use to protect our planet and life forms |
| which the temperature of the earth exceeds its normal | | | | surviving on it, from the harmful effects of Global |
| causing the earth heats up. Carbon dioxide is essential | | | | Warming. By reducing consumption of fossil fuels for |
| for plants for the processes of photosynthesis and | | | | our energy requirements, we can make a significant |
| respiration; both vital for life on the Green Planet, one | | | | change in our daily life and so our total carbon |
| for making food and other for generating oxygen, | | | | footprints. We can calculate our carbon footprints by |
| without which we even cannot imagine a life on the | | | | using a carbon calculator and can measure our impact |
| Earth. | | | | on our climate. Then we can try our best to reduce |
| Carbon dioxide was always present in the | | | | our carbon footprints. We can switch to alternative |
| atmosphere but this is only after the industrialization | | | | sources of energy like energy from wind, solar, wave, |
| that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the | | | | bio-fuels etc. to eliminate CO2 emissions. |
| atmosphere has raised dangerously causing imbalance | | | | We can adopt a carbon neutral lifestyle and save life |
| to the ecosystem of the Earth. As industrialization | | | | on earth, for e.g. we can go for carbon neutral flights |
| spread, the consumption of fossil fuel increased and it | | | | by purchasing carbon offsets and can significantly |
| has also increased the concentration of carbon dioxide | | | | reduce our carbon emissions. |
| in the atmosphere. Every person living on the earth | | | | Purchasing carbon offsets is the best way to lead a |
| and most man-made processes produce "carbon | | | | carbon neutral life, to actually help fund a project that is |
| footprints" (the measure of the amount of greenhouse | | | | able to prevent one ton of greenhouse gases from |
| gases, measured in units of carbon dioxide). As the | | | | being emitted for each ton that you have caused. |
| concentration of CO2 is continuously increasing in the | | | | |