{"id":107388,"date":"2022-04-11T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=107388"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:01:51","slug":"consumer-footprint-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/consumer-footprint-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Footprint Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Consumer Footprint Calculator allows you to calculate the <a href=\"https:\/\/eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/sustainableConsumption.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">environmental impacts of your consumption pattern<\/a>, as well as to evaluate how changes in your lifestyle may affect your personal footprint. It considers five areas of consumption, namely food, mobility, housing, household appliances, and household goods.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tool is based on a life cycle thinking approach, meaning that it considers the impacts occurring along the entire life cycle of the products and the energy that you consume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Consumer Footprint calculator covers 16 environmental impact indicators related to emissions generated into soil, water, and air as well as to resource use. These 16 indicators are those adopted in the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/uploads\/EF_categories_description.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Product Environmental Footprint method<\/a> and can be aggregated into a single score. This Calculator allows you to evaluate the impacts of your consumption, to help achieve SDG 12 on responsible consumption, and many other Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107415\" width=\"655\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled.jpg 800w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled-144x150.jpg 144w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled-768x798.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/04\/homepage_aligned_image_new_scaled-260x270.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Footprint Calculator allows you to calculate the environmental impacts of your consumption pattern, as well as to evaluate how changes in your lifestyle may affect your personal footprint. It considers five areas of consumption, namely food, mobility, housing, household appliances, and household goods. The tool is based on a life cycle thinking approach, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"New tool is based on a life cycle thinking approach, meaning that it considers the impacts occurring along the entire life cycle of the products and the energy that you consume","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,6406],"supplier":[2317],"class_list":["post-107388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-environment","supplier-european-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107388"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=107388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}