Highlights
• Carbon footprint at the UBI consumption level is 4.8 tCO 2 -eq per capita. • UBI carbon footprint is around half of the average carbon footprint in Finland. • Downscaling consumption alone is not enough to achieve sustainable lifestyles. • Additional mitigation solutions are needed alongside downscaling. • At a societal level, downscaling is hard to reconcile with high social security. Abstract
Human economic activities and following carbon emissions have been recognized to be a real threat to the environment. The current levels of consumption-based carbon footprints in all developed economies grossly exceed the sustainable level. Scientists […]
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