Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options
University of Leeds · BOKU University · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Background. Around two-thirds of global GHG emissions are directly and indirectly linked to household consumption, with a global average of about 6 tCO 2 eq/cap. The average per capita carbon footprint of North America and Europe amount to 13.4 and 7.5 tCO 2 eq/cap, respectively, while that of Africa and the Middle East—to 1.7 tCO 2 eq/cap on average. Changes in consumption patterns to low-carbon alternatives therefore present a great and urgently required potential for emission reductions. In this paper, we synthesize emission mitigation potentials across the consumption domains of food, housing, transport and other consumption. Methods. We systematically screened 6990 records in the Web of Science…
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6Topics & keywords
- Per capita
- Consumption (sociology)
- Carbon footprint
- Greenhouse gas
- Environmental science
- Gross domestic product
- Scopus
- Climate change mitigation