What is a CARBON FOOTPRINT? How to calculate and reduce it? | Climate change

The idea of a personal carbon footprint was popularized by a large advertising campaign of the fossil fuel company BP in 2005. This piece of propaganda was designed to shift the responsibility of carbon emissions from the company to the public.

📝 Erratum: @3:30 the vertical axis of the graph should read "CO2 concentration" not temperatures, and the voice-over should say "CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is the highest it has ever been in 400,000." Temperature will follow but fortunately, they are not there yet.

In this whiteboard animation, I explain what we mean by carbon footprint (definition), how it is calculated, why we need to reduce it and how to reduce it with lots of examples. I also suggest 3 carbon footprint calculators you can use:
If you are in the United States: https://coolclimate.org/calculator
If you are in the United Kingdom: https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/#/
If you are anywhere else: https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calcu...

0:00 Intro
0:28 What is a carbon footprint?
2:09 How is the carbon footprint calculated?
3:11 Why do we need to reduce our carbon footprint?
3:43 How to reduce our carbon footprint?
6:38 How to support & thank you

Other videos mentioned in this one:
Ecological footprint:    • Ecological footprint: Do we fit on ou...  
Climate change (ice core in Antarctica):    • Climate change: understanding the fac...  

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