New York, June 19: New Yorkers have long been able to keep tabs on the national debt, but they now have a highly visible counter to track greenhouse gas emissions.
A 21m high billboard outside Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station, not far from the Empire State Building, features a carbon counter.
Digital numbers help viewers track the amount of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. As of Thursday morning, it stood at more than 3.6 trillion tonnes.
The carbon counter is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. It is a few blocks from the National Debt Clock, which keeps track of the US government’s debt.
—Agencies