The climate-footprint of an average person in The Netherlands around 2001

The daily greenhouse gas emission for an average consumer in the Netherlands (click on the figure to enlarge).

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Sources:

• Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis, Edgar Hertwich & Glen Peters, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (16), pp 6414–6420.

• A hybrid multi-region method (HMR) for assessing the environmental impact of private consumption, Kees Vringer et al., Ecological Economics, Volume 69, Issue 12, 15 October 2010, Pages 2510–2516

  • An earlier version of the article, with numbers, is available here: http://www.vringer.nl/hmr.pdf
  • The emission figures from the article were converted from kg CO₂-eq per household in 2000 to kg CO₂-eq per person per day, assuming 366 days in this year and a mean household size of 2.3 persons (source: CBS).
  • Thanks to Kees Vringer for providing a spreadsheet with the data used in the article.