I've just computed that if you want to #offset ONE #travel by #plane#Paris to #Rio (about 2880 tCO2, according to @labos1point5), by not sending #email (without attachment), I need to completely stop sending emails for the next ...
272 YEARS !
assuming an average of 10 mails per day, each working #day. The #carbon#footprint of an email is considered to be 4g CO2eq.
And if you want to weigh video-meeting vs. in-person meeting then if you had to drive an ICE car to a full-day in-person meeting the break-even distance for emissions is about 5km.
Yeah, if my memory is good, 8h of zoom is up to 192 gCO2eq (that's assuming 8h with the camera on and screen sharing), which is equivalent of ~1km with a gasoline car or ~1km by plane.
500 miles by air flight is roughly equivalent to 9 continuous months of zoom (with screen sharing and camera on).
Yeah, I know. I'm leaving 5km away from my house. When I drive to work (electric car) to spend my all day on zoom, my main source of emission is ... to actually go to my institute.
(without considering the emissions from my institute which don't depend if I go or not).
#Today, I am celebrating my 4 years without flying ✈️.
The #Earth’s #climate is perturbed by #human activites. One of the easiest things to do towards #sustainability is to cut air travels. Thus, 4 years ago, I cut my frequent flyer cards and decided to #StayGrounded, using only low-#carbon travel means such as #train.