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Collaboration

Existing platforms / data APIs:

Carbon footprints of products
- building up carbon footprint data
  - people enter data from investigations, standardising products, origins, types, formats, units of measure
  - find the appropriate category or tag to assign the product or service under
- people look up carbon footprint
  - of an action, product, event, service already in the system so they choose by drilling down or predictive text or search
  - item has input parameters, e.g. how far to drive, petrol consumption, firstly taken from personal profile, otherwise chosen
  - maybe show overview, alternatives, ranges
- people log their carbon footprint in their account
Estimated average / virtual carbon footprints
- people set up their own carbon footprint profile which gives them an estimated carbon footprint
- number of flights per year, amount of red meat they eat, car model, annual mileage etc
- this is the background carbon footprint, on which detailed data from above is overlaid
Gamification
- people see their comparison against average carbon footprint for UK or London
- teams compare carbon footprint progress
- kudos points for sustainability actions like eating together / dinner parties (less waste / more efficient)

public website carbon calculator
- people get a user profile and fill in and keep updating their personal details, e.g. car's fuel consumption, electricity and fuel bills etc
- email them regularly about new findings and updates to carbon algorithm
Lahti FI personal carbon trading and mobility mobile app
- record & anonymise a set of travel data through the local area
link up to supermarket loyalty card schemes to put a carbon footprint on a shopping basket

Article on the 5 top tips for creating spreadsheets: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02076-1