The EEPN has commissioned a paper analysing the carbon footprint of the full lifecycle of paper, which indicates that if the full impacts of production, use and disposal are taken into account, paper may be responsible for more carbon emissions than global aviation. The EEPN encourages comment and discussion on this paper, which can be found.here
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