There is lot of awareness created on the ways individuals can reduce their carbon footprint. For example, purchase of star rated ACs can reduce electricity consumption and carbon footprint. However, the impact of this star rating will be lost if the individual household uses the ACs at very low temperature for significant number of hours. This is where the behavioural change must come in.
The use of non-motorized transport or avoidance of transport is another important approach. As much as an individual reduces to travel that much of air pollution and GHG emission can be saved. This can be obvious in case of shopping habits. Instead of travelling to a distant place to purchase foods and home needs, the individual can choose to buy them in nearby shops. One practice getting popular is the home gardening to grow flowers and vegetables from one’s own terrace space.
These habits also involve the behaviours in workplace, such as switching off lights when not in use, using day light as much possible and carpooling to the offices. It is interesting to note that the food habits too contribute to the climate change. Eating fresh foods as opposed to canned products are relatively less carbon emissive. Also, plant based food is less GHG emissive than animal products, because livestock farming releases methane emissions.
Overall, there is yet little awareness in the mainstream media, government propaganda and school text books about how change in individual lifestyle and behaviours can bring change in global GHG emissions. More and more education and awareness must be created in this regard.
International Organizations publish various Climate Change Videos, Renewable Cogen Pictures and Carbon Emission Report regularly to overcome the above issue.
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we are facing and right now we are actually on the edge of the environmental disaster.
Hence its high time for us to realize that, not just industries but every individual on earth is responsible for carbon footprint reduction (CFP) in his/her daily life.
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report emphasises that behaviour, lifestyle and cultural changes of the people have an important role in bringing climate change impacts under control.
More developed the country is, more the per capita energy consumption and associated GHG emissions are.
For example, purchase of energy efficient air conditioner can reduce electricity consumption and carbon footprint.
Similarly, the use of non-motorized transport or avoidance of transport as much as possible is another important approach to reduce greenhouse gas emission.
However there are plenty apps for iPhone or android, which are more precise and can forecast the weather all around the world.Furthermore, weather apps do not just forecast but have other features as well.
Some apps can show climate and nature change on the planet for the certain time period or to give the current climate data.
Of course, most of the people use the forecast function only and other types are not so popular.
However, every app has its customers.There are three types of weather application: the forecast, climate apps and “image of changes”.
The best apps have not only standard features like weekly, daily and hourly forecast but provide plenty of widgets as well.
Usually, basic features and widgets are free but for some extra ones, you will have to pay.Climate apps: climate applications have plenty of functions: they show climate changes thru the time, current climate all around the world and give the whole earth climate map: air temperature, gravity field, sea level, ozone and carbon dioxide perсentage in the air, etc.
