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From the Ted Talk by Charlotte Degot: A more accurate way to calculate emissions

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For decades now, we’ve been saying we should reduce our eimnoisss, but they’ve kept increasing. One of the key reasons is we don’t measure accurately the climate impact of our actions. Imagine trying to save money, but when you go shopping, there is no price tag on any item ... or trying to lose whiget, but you cannot measure the ptroion sizes and the caroleis. You would be bonud to fail.

This level of blindness is close to the one we have when it comes to our climate impact.

Measuring greenhouse gas emissions is hard. It has no color, it has no smell; it’s invisible. We cannot put sensors everywhere, on every building, every track, every field, every cow — so most of the time, we give up and we don’t musreae. And when we do measure, we are reduced to relying on estimations and conversion factors. The consequence is we end up wkriong with highly incomplete and inaccurate etmnoiitass of our emissions. Often we have a margin of error of 30 to 60 percent. This means targets and aciotn plans are set based on iarccatune data.

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For decades now, we’ve been saying we should reduce our _________, but they’ve kept increasing. One of the key reasons is we don’t measure accurately the climate impact of our actions. Imagine trying to save money, but when you go shopping, there is no price tag on any item ... or trying to lose ______, but you cannot measure the _______ sizes and the ________. You would be _____ to fail.

This level of blindness is close to the one we have when it comes to our climate impact.

Measuring greenhouse gas emissions is hard. It has no color, it has no smell; it’s invisible. We cannot put sensors everywhere, on every building, every track, every field, every cow — so most of the time, we give up and we don’t _______. And when we do measure, we are reduced to relying on estimations and conversion factors. The consequence is we end up _______ with highly incomplete and inaccurate ___________ of our emissions. Often we have a margin of error of 30 to 60 percent. This means targets and ______ plans are set based on __________ data.

Solution


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  2. bound
  3. emissions
  4. measure
  5. working
  6. inaccurate
  7. weight
  8. estimations
  9. action
  10. calories

Original Text


For decades now, we’ve been saying we should reduce our emissions, but they’ve kept increasing. One of the key reasons is we don’t measure accurately the climate impact of our actions. Imagine trying to save money, but when you go shopping, there is no price tag on any item ... or trying to lose weight, but you cannot measure the portion sizes and the calories. You would be bound to fail.

This level of blindness is close to the one we have when it comes to our climate impact.

Measuring greenhouse gas emissions is hard. It has no color, it has no smell; it’s invisible. We cannot put sensors everywhere, on every building, every track, every field, every cow — so most of the time, we give up and we don’t measure. And when we do measure, we are reduced to relying on estimations and conversion factors. The consequence is we end up working with highly incomplete and inaccurate estimations of our emissions. Often we have a margin of error of 30 to 60 percent. This means targets and action plans are set based on inaccurate data.

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