carbon footprint

In 2007, Applied Materials set goals for improving its environmental footprint worldwide. These goals were based on a thorough understanding of current operations made possible through several years of collecting relevant information.

Applied Materials technologists are featured in the cover story of the current issue of Solid State Technology speaking to how energy consumption and the resulting carbon footprint can be reduced more than 20 percent in customer subfabs.  To read the article, click here.

Recently, I learned The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the highest per capita ecological footprint in the world – if every person in the world lived and consumed natural resources like an average UAE resident, we would require 4.5 planets to sustain the consumption levels! More than 80% of its carbon footprint is due to carbon intensive goods and services, such as energy and water.