Published February 14, 2024 | Version v1
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1.5 Degree Lifestyles

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The "1.5 degree compatible living in the Nordic conditions: attitudes, lifestyles and carbon footprints" project was a carbon footprint calculator survey that was distributed between the autumn of 2021 and the spring of 2022 in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The survey was mostly distributed through social media, and used the services of an online marketing company. The only requirement to take the survey was to be a resident of one of the Nordic countries mentioned above and to be an adult who participated in the household finances. The survey received 13,924 responses and after removing the duplicate responses (participants who took the survey more than once), incomplete surveys, and the top and bottom 0.5% carbon footprints to exclude any cases where respondents may have greatly over or underestimated their consumption, the number of responses was 7,359.  The survey was administered by the  University of Iceland (https://carbonfootprint.hi.is/) and was funded by the Icelandic Center for Research RANNÍS (grant number 207195-052).

To estimate the carbon footprints of the respondents, the survey consisted of a multitude of questions about the respondents' consumption over the past year. The survey also had questions to gather data on climate concern, pro-climate actions, self reported well-being, and other sociodemographic variables. The carbon footprints of the respondents were calculated using a hybrid assessment model with the majority of emissions calculated with process LCA data, and the rest with the Exiobase IO model for determining the emissions resulting from the consumption of goods and services. The carbon footprints were divided into eight domains including: diet, housing energy, private vehicle ownership and use, public transport use, leisure travel, goods and services, pets, and second homes. The footprints are calculated on a per capita basis, but the domains of housing energy, private vehicle ownership and use, pets, and second homes are considered shared domains and the total emissions resulting from these domain is divided by the number of people reported living in the household. Full details on how the carbon footprints were calculated can be seen in:

Heinonen, J., Olson, S., Czepkiewicz, M., Árnadóttir, Á. & Ottelin, J. 2022. Too much consumption or too high emissions intensities? Explaining the high consumption-based carbon footprints in the Nordic countries. Environmental Research Communications.

To protect the anonymity of the respondents, we removed the location coordinates of the residents and also the personal income information.

Contact information: Dr. Jukka Heinonen, University of Iceland, email: heinonen@hi.is

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Funding

Project grant 207195-052
The Icelandic Centre for Research

References

  • Heinonen, J., Olson, S., Czepkiewicz, M., Árnadóttir, Á. & Ottelin, J. 2022. Too much consumption or too high emissions intensities? Explaining the high consumption-based carbon footprints in the Nordic countries. Environmental Research Communications.
  • https://carbonfootprint.hi.is/