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Carbon footprint of our products
Our customers emit about nine times more CO2 using our products than we do making them. A small share of the energy products we make, such as electricity from our wind turbines, emit no CO2 at all during use.
In 2008, we produced energy products that delivered just over 10.7 exajoules of energy. That was equivalent to 3.2% of the world’s final energy consumption, based on the International Energy Agency’s 2006 data, the most recent year for which international data is available.
Our customers emitted an estimated 690 million tonnes of CO2 in 2008 using these energy products. We released a further 89 million tonnes of CO2 and other GHGs making them. This is calculated on an equity ownership basis, including our share of joint ventures where we do not have a controlling interest. Together, this is equivalent to 2.8% of global CO2 emitted from the combustion of fossil fuels.
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