Progressive carbon budgets
publié le , mis à jourOn https://futur.eco, we're trying to make the link between the kgCO2e of e.g. a plane trip or a banana and the emissions budgets. As you can see on this page (in french, sorry), https://futur.eco/scénarios, the user can choose a warming scenario and see the impact on the portion of the corresponding budget consumed by that plane trip. E.g. 20 days in the current scenario (10t / person in France) rises to 3 months (!) in the 2°C scenario. I'm far from an expert in that field, so these scenarios and carbon budgets should probably be corrected. This article and this interactive project look perfect for getting to know more about the subject :-) In particular, at the moment the target carbon budget per person is not anchored to a given year. It would be far better to say : "you'll have to reduce your budget to 5.5 tonnes in 2025 (for Germany, 1.75° of warming)"
TODO :
- re-evaluate the personal carbon budgets estimations (flat distribution worlwide)
- implement a switch to chose your country and base the emission reductions in 2016, the year of the Paris climate deal, as explained in the article above
- implement personal targets year by year (or decade by decade) to give more practical and less frightening recommendations