Holidays and Carbon Footprints As Britain emerges out of lockdown and life gets back to normal, Climate Action Wendover reviewed recent research published by the magazine nature to understand what impact the global pandemic has had on carbon emissions.
As we prepare to head off on a well-earned summer holiday, let’s take a moment to consider the impact we will have travelling and staying at our holiday destination. A return trip from Wendover by a medium sized petrol car to popular destinations such as Newquay or Windermere emits 345kg CO2 per car. However, this is considerably less than a family of four flying return economy from London to Faro in Portugal which would emit 2110kg CO2.
After rising steadily for decades, global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.4%, or 2.3 billion tonnes, in 2020, due to many parts of the world coming to a forced standstill and economies shutting down. Unsurprisingly, the biggest dip in carbon emissions was from February to May Everything we do releases carbon dioxide 2020, before steadily rising again to reach preinto the atmosphere but there are a pandemic levels by December 2020. number of carbon offsetting schemes The pandemic has provided a unique lens such as carbonneutralbritain.org that fund on the challenge that lies ahead for nations renewable energy and forest projects, committed to fighting climate change. The helping us to reverse the impact of our United Nations Environment Programme consumption and become carbon neutral. estimates that the world would need to cut carbon emissions by 7.6% per year If you are keen to learn more and for the next decade to prevent the globe join our group, please follow our from warming more than 1.5 °C above pre- Facebook page or contact us directly at industrial level. climateactionwendover@gmail.com.
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