C.f: Calculate the incremental carbon footprint of a person...

In duplisea/TESAcarbon: Carbon Footprint of TESA Activities

Description

This is a rough CO2 calculator. The output is in tonnes CO2 for the trip. It is based on information from the carboon footprint calculator. It makes several assumptions: an average meal out costs 20 USD. The average hotel cost is 160 USD/night, bustrain carbon cost is an average of several modes of wheeled public transport, car travel is based on a standard gasoline car with engine > 2l. Meal carbon costs are discounted by 50 percent because restaurants are about half as efficient as home for carbon use mostly owing to food waste (cbc article). Results compare pretty well with https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com but they tend to be slightly lower primarily because restaurant meal carbon costs are discounted by 50 percent.

The carbon footprint is incremental in that it assumes most of the carbon consuming activities that a participant does at home (except meals) continue at home while they are away. e.g. they still heat their house, feed the dog. The incremental cost might be slightly high but given the result is less than the total carbon cost from carbonfootprint, we may have struck a balance. We also consider this most useful in comparison between TESA activities and years rather than as an absolute CO2 emission measure.

Usage

C.f(hotel.nights, plane.distance, bustrain.distance, car.distance,
  number.car.sharing, meals)

Arguments

hotel.nights	number of nights staying at a hotel solo in a room
plane.distance	the total flight distance (back and forth) from home to the activity. Set as 0 if you did not take the plane (km)
bustrain.distance	the total distance travelled on a bus or train for the activity. Set as 0 if you did not take a bus or train (km)
car.distance	the total distance travelled in a car for the activity. Set as 0 if you did not take a car (km)
number.car.sharing	the number of people who shared the car to travel to and from the activity
meals	the number of meals eaten out during the trip (do not include meals you made yourself)

Author(s)

Daniel Duplisea

Examples

C.f(hotel.nights=5, plane.distance=1200, bustrain.distance= 0, car.distance=40, number.car.sharing=1, meals=15)

duplisea/TESAcarbon documentation built on April 19, 2021, 1:18 a.m.