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   A carbon footprint is an amount of pollution emitted by an organisation, event, product or individual person.  Every single one of us has a carbon footprint because day to day modern living means that we are all responsible for releasing pollutants into the air through means such as travelling, using electricity and how we dispose of our domestic waste, etc.  Short of living in a cave this will not change but there are many practices that can be adopted by us such as switching off appliances, buying energy saving products and choosing the services of companies who are actively involved in reducing emissions.  We can also purchase carbon credits which we can trade in the knowledge that when they are retired, will have actively reduced emissions from being released into the Earth's atmosphere.  Retirement of the credit is the overall objective to ensure that it is not sold again and that the emission that it represents has been removed forever and will appear on the registry with that status.