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Beyond the global or regional carbon pricing strategies I've already discussed, I'd also like to work out a personal carbon price. A personal carbon price is effectively the price that I, personally, am willing to pay to offset a tonne of my own carbon emissions. It's a concept I've been thinking about more and more …
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Out of all the strategies that have been proposed to help the world toward a net-zero future, carbon pricing is one of the most compelling.
It's a conceptually straightforward concept and the argument goes something like this:
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Although I knew that transportation was a major part of carbon emissions, fully exploring my household data really drove that point home.
However, the high-level data only unearthed more questions that needed exploring. Are plane emissions primarily driven by the fact that we travel further by plane? How far do we …
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One of the single largest contributors to personal carbon dioxide emissions is energy usage at home.
In my case, this includes natural gas and electricity, but for others it may involve bottled gas or heating oil. Regardless of the specific form, the reason behind carbon dioxide emissions from energy usage is the …
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How much carbon dioxide does our household release? Where do these emissions come from? How is it changing over time? These are the critical questions that need accurate data so that I can begin to plot a sensible route to get to net zero. Here I work out and plot our household carbon dioxide emissions.
What …
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