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carbon neutral

09:33 Aug 21, 2012
English to German translations [PRO]
Environment & Ecology /
English term or phrase: carbon neutral
"This card was manufactured with environmentally friendly paper, and it was produced and sent carbon neutral."

Surprisingly I find "...sent/shipped carbon neutral" much more often than "sent carbon-neutrally" or "sent on a carbon-neutral basis". To me the latter two suggestions sound much better and I doubt the correctness of the source text (was sent carbon neutral).
Does anyone have the correct solution? Is the use of the adjective "carbon neutral", which actually describes the verb "to send" and therefore, in my opinion, the verb should rather be followed by the adverb "carbon-neutrally", is this use really correct?

Könnte mir eine Muttersprachlerin/ ein Muttersprachler helfen?

Thank you very much Vielen Dank

Simone
Simone Reiter
Local time: 07:23


Summary of answers provided
4 +1CO2-neutral
Rolf Kern
4Klimaneutral
jonas_wnd
3klimaneutral
Bernd Runge


Discussion entries: 3





  

Answers


25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
klimaneutral


Explanation:
... scheint das Wort der Stunde zu sein, zumindest bei DHL und UPS.

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Note added at 27 Min. (2012-08-21 10:00:31 GMT)
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Entschuldigung. Zur Zeit meiner Antwort war die Sprachrichtung noch nicht bei der fünften Änderung angekommen ;-)

Bernd Runge
Germany
Local time: 07:23
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Klimaneutral


Explanation:
Es wird wahrscheinlich carbon neutral geschrieben, da es vom sog. "carbon neutral concept" abgeleitet ist, siehe dazu die obere Quelle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_neutrality
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimaneutralität



jonas_wnd
Germany
Local time: 07:23
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
CO2-neutral


Explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/cbwaxpf

Rolf Kern
Switzerland
Local time: 07:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  jonas_wnd: Das ist problematisch... "Die Verbrennung nicht-fossiler Stoffe wird mit der Begründung, der erzeugte CO2-Ausstoß wäre früher oder später in jedem Fall in die Atmosphäre gelangt, fälschlicherweise als CO2-neutral bezeichnet. " Wikipedia-Quelle oben...
10 hrs
agree  Bernd Albrecht: co2-neutral ist m.E. der gängige Begriff, weil nicht das Klima, sondern das CO2 ausgestoßen wird. Eine ausgeglichene Bilanz wird dann als neutral bezeichnet.
1 day 16 hrs
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