{"id":116,"date":"2018-10-16T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=116"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:43:06","slug":"my-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"My Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just updated my carbon footprint calculation using WWF Footprint<\/a> calculator. It comes out at 3.8 tonnes CO2 annually which is less than the answer I got in 2016 though that was using a different calculator. I think the main difference will be not having had any flights in the last year. We now drive an electric car and, even though we didn’t run a car in 2016, we did rent petrol driven cars for a few weeks in the year. So that will make a difference too.<\/p>\n

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I’m surprised that the house is so low. It is for the past year and we haven’t bought any appliances. We have all the insulation that’s going, solar panels on the roof, and use green electricity and gas.<\/p>\n

Interesting that the government uses almost as much gCO2 on my behalf as I do personally!<\/p>\n

Two years ago, I used Carbon Footprint<\/a> to calculate  our house carbon footprint and it came out at 4.12 metric tonnes CO2e. That’s per person, there are two of us in a five apartment semi-detached house. This is half the UK average and just a bit above the world average of 4 tonnes. But still twice the target of 2 tonnes needed to combat climate change. Here the result:<\/p>\n

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Things that help with this score:<\/p>\n