How to Use carbon footprint in a Sentence

carbon footprint

noun

• Then there’s the question of the big plane’s carbon footprint.
  — Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
• Beef is the extreme case, with a carbon footprint roughly sixty times that of beans.
  — Tenzin Seldon, Fortune, 21 June 2026
• The cost could be too high, despite the overall lower carbon footprint.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
• And the sole is what drives the shoe’s carbon footprint—some 40 percent of its total mass.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
• Reducing your carbon footprint could start with your dinner.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
• Plus, it must be said, some proper mileage and, regrettably so, a certain carbon footprint.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
• The rules aim to reduce the apparel and footwear sector’s carbon footprint.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
• Besides, the biggest component of a wind farm’s carbon footprint is the concrete and steel.
  — Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
• People living in cities have a much lower carbon footprint than rural people.
  — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
• In a sense, that makes its recent progress in renewables that much more impactful, though its carbon footprint is still huge.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
• Their carbon footprint can be up to 10 times greater than a properly disposed-of real tree.
  — Ali Besharat, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
• Using renewables and a heat battery lowers the carbon footprint of the project.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
• The firm does not, for instance, share much about its AI-training data or carbon footprint.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• But there are ways to lower the carbon footprint of your eating habits without cutting out meat entirely.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
• Another cut the carbon footprint by 30 percent, with a smaller drop in fat.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
• This gave Gates, from the use of his private jet alone, the same carbon footprint as a small town in Burundi.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
• There are projects with an even bigger potential carbon footprint than Stargate.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2026
• In addition to cutting costs, the method also reduces the carbon footprint.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
• The standard process relies on fossil fuels to this date, giving rise to a larger carbon footprint.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
• And the hotel publishes its actual carbon footprint on its site.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
• At the same time, up to 99 percent of a clothing purveyor’s carbon footprint can lie in its supply chain.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
• All wool is climate beneficial, from sheep with zero carbon footprint.
  — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
• The gas conversion will reduce the landfill’s carbon footprint.
  — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
• But the carbon footprint of the meat consumption depends on where the meat was produced, Goldstein said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
• And since it’s made from fossil fuels, the product has a significant carbon footprint.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• New studies are beginning to show AI has a sizeable carbon footprint.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
• Studies show buying refurbished can cut a product's carbon footprint nearly in half.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
• As a result, this material has only one-quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint and costs less than one-third as much.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
• Or for the ecologically conscious, this is a low-carbon footprint (option).
  — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
• In China, the project is part of a government push to cut the carbon footprint of data facilities.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025