{"id":1655,"date":"2022-09-07T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1655"},"modified":"2022-09-07T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:47:13","password":"","slug":"what-is-a-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/docs\/what-is-a-carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a carbon footprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jasmin-sessler-sRJEcdEhyZw-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average carbon footprint is closer to 4 tons. To have the best chance of avoiding a 2\u2103 rise in global temperatures, the average global carbon footprint per year needs to drop to under 2 tons by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lowering individual carbon footprints from 16 tons to 2 tons doesn\u2019t happen overnight! By making small changes to our actions, like eating less meat, taking fewer connecting flights and line drying our clothes, we can start making a big difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonfootprint.com\/calculator1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carbon Footprint Calculator<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions. The average carbon footprint&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[43],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1655","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-carbon-footprint"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":119,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"youngreen","author_nicename":"youngreen","author_url":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/author\/youngreen\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Carbon Footprint","term_url":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/docs-category\/carbon-footprint\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1655\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}