MIT：零售碳足迹-衡量房地产和技术的影响（英文版）

Retail Carbon Footprints: Measuring Impacts from Real Estate and Technology23CARBON FOOTPRINTS AND RETAIL BEHAVIORS OF CONSUMERS21st century consumers face unprecedented choice when purchasing goods and services. A growing body of research has been investigating what impact consumer choices have on carbon use, GhG emissions, and climate change. The research has a shared concensus, consumer decisions are carbon emitting. However, some consumer decisions, choices by logistics and supply chain providers, transportation and even technological solutions contribute to more GhG emissions than less. As a real estate group, our goal was to focus on how real estate, urban planning and technology impacts the total GhG emissions that a retail consumer initiates when they make a purchase. We present in our research where all decision makers can make a contribution to minimize the carbon footprint from their business and retail behaviors.“Our goal is to understand the carbon footprints of consumer r