Debit where debit is due!

Carbon emissions 'unrelated to city density.

"When analysing the carbon footprint of a city, most research studies look at the emissions generated by the inhabitants of that city. Typically they come to the conclusion that denser cities produce less carbon emissions on a per capita basis. But Jukka Heinonen and his colleague Seppo Junnila from Aalto University, Finland, have a different way of examining this issue. They believe that emissions should not be allocated to where they are produced, but to where they are consumed. "For example, if a television is made in a big factory in the countryside, but bought by someone living in a city, the carbon emission generated from the production of that television should be allocated to the consumer, not the factory," Heinonen told environmentalresearchweb. 

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/45604

I first heard a similar accounting approach at COP15 in Copenhagen where it was proposed that GHG emissions be sourced at the point of consumption. It makes sense given we in the so called developed world make demands on the developing world to produce. It would lead surely to distributed systems and measuring consumption kilometers.