Imagine that the aquaculture industry manages to reduce its own climate footprint by 2% per year, measured as kg CO2e / kg salmon produced. At the same time, the aquaculture industry as a whole is growing by 3% per year, in kg of salmon produced per year.
Which of the following statements is not true of such a situation?
Choose one option:
It is an example of relative decoupling.
This means that the climate footprint of farmed salmon is getting lower and lower
The overall climate footprint of the aquaculture industry is rising
It is an example of absolute decoupling.
