PresentationCarbonFootprint

Presentation on Carbon Footprint and Carbon Counting

• Carbon cycle and the normal balance of nature
• What carbon or CO2 emissions actually are
  • greenhouse gases capture heat from the sun instead of letting it bounce back out into space
  • how many gigatonnes / billions of tons of CO2
  • image of NYC bubbles
  • fact - most produced substance by man
  • emissions chart upwards
• What's it doing to the planet
  • hockey stick
  • coral reefs, glaciers, deltas, ice caps started
  • wildfires, hurricanes, freak storms, extreme weather, droughts, floods
  • recessions, refugee crises, loss of farmland
• Carbon footprints 1: Food
  • meat, dairy, beans etc
• Carbon footprints 2: Travel
  • planes, trains, automobiles
• Carbon footprints 3: Domestic
  • electricity provider / renewable tariff
  • bank accounts and investments
• Carbon footprints 4: Everything else
• Carbon footprints 5: DIY
  • social cloud of knowledge
  • convergence of crises - deforestation
  • how to tap into it
  • truth vs urban myths
• Offsetting - don't do it
  • make sure you're doing all the above first
  • only do it if you realise it is a charitable act, not a proper way to reduce your CO2
  • if you do do it, realise you have to choose the most reliable (& expensive) certificates
  • realise you may get called out for greenwashing
• Is Carbon Footprinting the way forward?
  • British govt is silent on the matter
  • Net Zero 2050 is this plan to make all businesses carbon neutral by 2050 so does that mean we don't have to do anything?
  • The gov't's CCC says we need behaviour change to reduce our emissions, so the answer is NO, but with no further info
  • Many people say it is too difficult to reduce our carbon footprint here in the rich world and carbon footprinting is the invention of the fossil fuel corps as an attempt to push blame onto consumers for buying so much fossil fuel
• Carbon Counts campaigning for a compulsory carbon label

Great Big Green Week presentation '22

Workshop structure

TIme (pm)	Activity	Notes
7:00	Introduction	who were are what we'll do how bad is climate change - context
7:10
7:20