Can individuals save the climate through sobriety?

by time news

Transport, food, consumption… our daily activities consume energy and produce greenhouse gases, too.

In France, each individual emits an average of ten tonnes of CO equivalent2 per year. To achieve the carbon neutrality objectives set by the Paris agreements in 2015 and limit the impact on the planet’s climate, it would be necessary to drop to two tonnes per person.

What we hear a lot is that our daily actions could help reduce this carbon footprint.

But how far can we go? And is that enough?

In this new episode of our video series Plan Bwe are going to meet two people committed to a low-carbon lifestyle, to understand the impact of these gestures, and their limits.

Sources :

Carbon footprint calculators: Our Climate Actions (Ademe), MyCo2 (Carbone 4)

Educational kit on low carbon life: Let’s invent our low carbon lives

After the collapse, on Instagram and Youtube

Accords de Paris , UNFCCC

do your part, Carbone 4, 2019

4 scenarios to achieve carbon neutrality, Ademe

Key climate figures, Ministry of Ecological Transition, 2022

Global Inequality Report, Global Inequality Lab, 2022

Five-part World article series on sobriety:

The challenge of sobriety to respond to the climate emergency, Le Monde, May 30, 2022

Energy sobriety: the difficult decoupling between economic activity and greenhouse gas emissions, Le Monde, May 30, 2022

“Faced with the climate emergency, the camp of adaptation and that of rupture”, Le Monde, May 30, 2022

More sober mobility: the challenge of the century, Le Monde, May 31, 2022

Why our food system is unsustainable for the planet, Le Monde, June 1, 2022

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