These are Scope 3 Category 11 emissions, corresponding to “use of sold products”, however this has been modified to quantify emissions from each fossil fuel company’s net production of oil, gas, or coal as opposed to sold products.
These are Scope 3 Category 11 emissions, corresponding to “use of sold products”, however this has been modified to quantify emissions from each fossil fuel company’s net production of oil, gas, or coal as opposed to sold products.
There’s always been a sort of false dichotomy about this. On the one hand there’s this idea that climate change can be solved by individual consumer choices and personal responsibility. On the other there’s the idea that the average person can continue on with their life exactly as before if we just fix things “behind the scenes”.
IMO the reality is that climate change mitigation requires systemic top-down change, but that change is going to affect people’s lives. In some ways for the better and some ways for the worse. The kind of “individual choices” we need people to make is to choose not to throw a hissy fit when their local government removes a car lane.