Transport accounts for about 31% of a household’s greenhouse gas emissions - so “cleaning up the car” can take on a whole new meaning when thinking about global warming.
Anyone who’s concerned about their impact on global warming probably thinks of the car pretty quickly. The easiest way to reduce your impact is drive less - walking, riding, taking public transport instead. But what about those times when we have to use the car?
We’ve put together a eco-driving guide with tips on how to reduce your emissions when driving.
But at the end of the day, cars still emit greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide is the most well known, but other gases like nitrogen oxide, or NOx) are also emitted).
One way you can effectively neutralise the emissions from your car is to “offset” those emissions. We’ve got a guide that explains offsets in a bit more detail - but in essence, you pay a small fee to an offsetting company to invest in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the same amount that your car puts out.
One of WWF’s partners, Climate Friendly is one such offsetting company. They have a great calculator that you can use to work out your car’s emissions, and then offset those emissions at the click of a button.
(As an aside, you can also offset your flights in the same way.)
i want to drive a car but i’m too young.now what are you going to do make them agnst the law before i can?my dad’s car hardly even poltes the air.i hate buses and they put out just as much corbon as my mom’s truck they’re just more crowed and don’t have seat belts.also the people that say this drive around in prvie jets that put out more corbon every time they’re driven then my dad’s car dose in 10 years!what you got to say now?more crazyness?