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View all search resultsNew IESR study suggests policies to curb individual carbon footprints
A new landmark study on individual carbon footprints from the IESR points to a wide disparity between urban and dwellers, suggesting that administrations can create more localized policies to encourage residents to curb their daily emissions.
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Vehicles crawl in bumper-to-bumper traffic along a major thoroughfare in Jakarta during the evening rush hour on Nov. 13, 2024. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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rban dwellers across Java might be contributing more to global heating by producing a larger amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) compared to rural dwellers, according to a new report published on Wednesday.
Researchers involved in the study by the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), a Jakarta-based think tank, therefore suggest authorities issue, as part of broader climate mitigation measures, policies that promote behavioral changes to encourage urban dwellers to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the main driver of climate change.
Launched on July 23, the report analyzed the results of an emissions production survey involving 423 individual respondents in nine urban, semi-urban and rural areas across Java.
Each respondent kept a record of their daily mobility, food consumption and electricity use via IESR’s online platform jejakkarbonku.id, which was then used to calculate their individual carbon footprint. A separate online survey was conducted to clarify each user’s reported data.
The results showed that people living in the major urban areas of South Jakarta, Bandung in West Java and Yogyakarta tended to emit significantly higher levels of CO2.
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People in those cities generated around 3.4 tonnes of carbon each year, around 45 percent higher than residents in the rural areas of Cianjur in West Java or Purworejo in Central Java. They also produced 21 percent more emissions than people who live in smaller cities such as Bogor, West Java, and Serang, Banten.
