Carbon Footprint

• CO2 is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming
• Humans and their activities contribute significantly to the increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
• Your carbon footprint is a very powerful tool for understanding the impact of your lifestyle on global warming.
• The best way to calculate CO2 emissions is based on fuel consumption.
• The amount of energy you use to heat your home
• Your use of electrical and electronic equipment
• your daily transport
• how often you use air transport
• Climate change, desertification, overgrazing, the collapse of fish stocks, food insecurity, rapid extinction of species all form part o a single issue: humans demand more from the earth that it can provide.
• Reducing one's carbon footprint is probably the most urgent step to take in the long term to ensure survival of life on earth
• Possible actions to reduce your carbon footprint:

  • Insulate your home- it reduces the amount of energy needed to heat the house in winter and cool in summer
  • Buy energy saving equipment
  • Use alternative energy sources
  • Support local produce or grow own
  • Switch off electronics at the wall
  • Walk, cycle or use public transport
  • Use less air transport
  • Reduce, re-use and recycle