More actions
Created page with "frame|Graphs - Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash|class=align-center = Retrospective 2023 CO2 Audit = Every year I perform a rough Carbon Footprint audit. I’d encourage anyone to do the same so that we can work together to really understand what your outputs are, and really it just focuses the mind, you can’t ‘fool’ yourself. I do yearly working time too! So let’s summarise 2023 and plan for 2024... I was going to try and make a r..." |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
I was going to try and make a record of all my spends which affect my CO2 footprint - I started but that did not happen in the end as it was just too tedious and difficult to keep track of. | I was going to try and make a record of all my spends which affect my CO2 footprint - I started but that did not happen in the end as it was just too tedious and difficult to keep track of. | ||
I have zero production costs for Housing (over 50 years old), Car (over 11 years old), Cycle (over 10 years old). Further, as part of this focus we have changed our energy supplier to [[wikipedia:Octopus_Energy|Octopus]] which is the UK’s biggest green energy supplier providing 100% renewable energy. And so we have no CO2 footprint for energy in the house. So on this basis for | I have zero production costs for Housing (over 50 years old), Car (over 11 years old), Cycle (over 10 years old). Further, as part of this focus we have changed our energy supplier to [[wikipedia:Octopus_Energy|Octopus]] which is the UK’s biggest green energy supplier providing 100% renewable energy. And so we have no CO2 footprint for energy in the house. So on this basis for 2023 | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
| Car | | Car | ||
| 1.155 | | 1.155 | ||
| Astra 1.8 Design - 04/12/ | | Astra 1.8 Design - 04/12/2023 91,695 miles - 04/12/2024 102,753 miles = 11058 over 3 years = 3685. All fuel offset. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Travel | | Travel | ||
Revision as of 17:25, 23 January 2025
Retrospective 2023 CO2 Audit
Every year I perform a rough Carbon Footprint audit. I’d encourage anyone to do the same so that we can work together to really understand what your outputs are, and really it just focuses the mind, you can’t ‘fool’ yourself. I do yearly working time too!
So let’s summarise 2023 and plan for 2024...
I was going to try and make a record of all my spends which affect my CO2 footprint - I started but that did not happen in the end as it was just too tedious and difficult to keep track of.
I have zero production costs for Housing (over 50 years old), Car (over 11 years old), Cycle (over 10 years old). Further, as part of this focus we have changed our energy supplier to Octopus which is the UK’s biggest green energy supplier providing 100% renewable energy. And so we have no CO2 footprint for energy in the house. So on this basis for 2023
| Type | Sub-Type | CO2 (tonnes) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Water Food | 0.000 0.120 1.472 | 100% Renewables UK average consumption Flexible Vegan Diet, including 25% Food Waste (reduced from the 33% average) | |
| Travel | Car | 1.155 | Astra 1.8 Design - 04/12/2023 91,695 miles - 04/12/2024 102,753 miles = 11058 over 3 years = 3685. All fuel offset. |
| Travel | Public | 0.000 | No Usage - Cycle or Run |
| Travel Clothes Eating Out Online Life | Air | 0.810 0.140 0.000 0.000 | 3 trips to Spain (holidays) with RyanAir at 3600km return at 75g per km = 810kg (0.810) tonnes. All according to https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=3 which does not take account of the airline efficiency. All Trips offset. I’ve no clue, but I have limited clothes (my wife would say very limited) so let’s take the UK average of 140kg pa. Included in ‘Food’ above No clue for this year (I didn’t keep a record) - fixed for 2024 |
| Everything | Else | 0.000 | No clue for this year (I didn’t keep a record) - fixed for 2024 |
| Sub-TOTAL Sub-TOTAL | 3.701 1.736 | Total Carbon Offsetting where I can. | |
| Error TOTAL | +10% | 0.370 4.071 | 10% of running total to account for errors in estimations of my personal use. Total Carbon |
Now we can also see the personal targets we should be aiming for and that I need to be at 3.3 tonnes by 2030 and 2.3 by 2040. So the first target is lose 1.3 tonnes in 10 years but let’s try to get to this faster.
So this means that my 2023 consumption is 4.071 or 1.736 offset tonnes of CO2. The current amount a UK citizen consumes is 6 tonnes.
The Plan for 2024
For 2024 I’m going to try and get better data around keeping track of purchases so that I can allocate an average kg/£ to enable me to better work out the real carbon footprint.