Many countries in Europe and the rest of the world are working hard to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses they produce. Transport vehicles emit a huge amount of CO2 gasses into the earth's atmosphere every day.
This module will help you to understand the simple changes you could make to your travel choices that will help to reduce the level of carbon emissions in your local community, make you healthier and ultimately make the planet a cleaner, safer place to live.
Hi, Hola, Hej!
Welcome to your Personal Commitment Summary, from here you'll be able to edit your previous choices and see the relevant changes they might have.
Little Planet Data Sources
Here's all the juicy good stuff of how we calculate the numbers.
Vehicles
Greenhouse gases, based on 1 mile of travel
- Walk: 0 kg
- Cycle: 0 kg
- Eco Car: 0.22505 kg
- Small Car: 0.30811 kg
- Family Car: 0.37604 kg
- 4x4: 0.50741 kg
- Bus: 0.14986 kg
- Tram: 0.07659 kg
- Train: 0.06715 kg
Data from 2012 Guidelines to Defra/DECC's GHG Conversion Factors
Frequencies
Number of days associated with frequency
- Daily: 365 days
- Mon-Fri: 190 days
- Twice Weekly: 104 days
- Weekly: 52 days
- Twice Monthly: 24 days
- Monthly: 12 days
- Twice Yearly: 2 days
- Yearly: 1 days
People
Amount of people involved in journey
- Just Me: 1 person
- A few of us: 3 people
- Class: 30 people
- School: 800 people
- Manchester: 2,682,500 people
- United Kingdom: 62,740,000 people
- The World: 7,089,000,000 people
Data from TfGM and Wikipedia
Comparisons
Average weights of items used in comparisions
- Fly: 0.00002 kg
- Feather: 0.0003 kg
- Piece of paper: 0.005 kg
- Mouse: 0.03 kg
- Smartphone: 0.1 kg
- Handbag: 1.4 kg
- Big bottle of cola: 2 kg
- Chihuahua: 2 kg
- Baby: 3 kg
- Cat: 4 kg
- Child: 20 kg
- Woman: 50 kg
- Man: 70 kg
- Fridge freezer: 95 kg
- Sumo wrestler: 150 kg
- Grand piano: 300 kg
- Cow: 600 kg
- Church bell: 2,000 kg
- Ice cream van: 2,500 kg
- African elephant: 5,000 kg
- T. rex: 10,000 kg
- Cottage: 150,000 kg
- Blue whale: 180,000 kg
- Eiffel Tower: 10,100,000 kg
- Titanic: 50,000,000 kg
- Empire State: 336,000,000 kg
- Great Pyramid: 6,000,000,000 kg
- The human race: 400,000,000,000 kg
Data from Wikipedia
