The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints

Bjarne W. Strobel; Anders Christian Erichsen; Quentin Gausset

doi:10.4324/9781315700298

The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints

Bjarne W. Strobel, Anders Christian Erichsen, Quentin Gausset

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Abstract

A pre-condition for reducing global warming is to minimise the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). A common approach to informing people about the link between behaviour and climate change rests on developing GHG calculators that quantify the ‘carbon footprint’ of a product, a sector or an actor. There is, however, an abundance of GHG calculators that rely on very different premises and give very different estimates of carbon footprints. In this chapter, we compare and analyse the main principles of calculating carbon footprints, and discuss how calculators can inform (or misinform) people who wish to adopt greener behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation
Editors	Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset
Number of pages	21
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	2015
Pages	7-27
Chapter	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-138-90109-4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-315-70029-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315700298
Publication status	Published - 2015

Series	Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Keywords

Global warming
Green house gas
Footprint calculators
Behaviour change
Climate change
carbon footprint

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The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints. / Strobel, Bjarne W.; Erichsen, Anders Christian; Gausset, Quentin.

Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation. ed. / Jens Hoff; Quentin Gausset. Routledge, 2015. p. 7-27 (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research).

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