Greenhouse gas emissions must quickly and drastically reduce so that we can hope to contain global warming over the next few decades. But how ? Does this have to go through incentives, through replacements, through subsidies, through prohibitions? What activities to target?
The carbon footprint of each French person reached 9 tonnes in CO equivalent2 on average in 2019, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition (including emissions from imported products) and it should be reduced to less than 2 tons to make it “sustainable”, according to theFrench Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe).
Who really knows the orders of magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions? The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, insisted in June on the need to reduce sending emails with attachments, and judged in august pollution from private jets ” limit[e] »…while a single plane trip emits more CO2 than tens of thousands of emails.
Food, transport, housing, heating, purchases of equipment or daily life… Do you know what pollutes a little, a lot or a lot? Test your knowledge of orders of magnitude with our quiz.