Mobility and climate change
Mobility and climate change
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1 https://www.racfoundation.org/research/mobility/spaced-out-perspectives-on-parking [last accessed on 21 December 2022] 2 https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1079302/umfrage/durchschnittliche-fahrgeschwindigkeit-zur-hauptverkehrsze - it-in-deutschen-grossstaedten/ [last accessed on 22 December 2022] (in German) 3 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR?end=2020&start=1970&view=chart [last accessed on 22 December 2022] 4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307779 [last accessed on 22 December 2022] 5 https://www.atmosfair.de/en/green_travel/annual_climate_budget/ [last accessed on 22 December 2022] 6 Cf. https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new • Cars weigh an average of almost 2 tons and are often used only for the purpose of transporting a 25-kg child to kindergarten. This is ineffective and uses a lot of fuel. For example, the average occu - pancy rate of a car in Germany is only 1.4 persons. • The enormous weight of an aircraft (an Airbus 380 weighs 560 tons) has to be brought to an altitude of about 10,000 metres. This takes a huge amount of jet fuel. Greenhouse gases emitted at this alti - tude are also more harmful for the climate than at ground level. • The flightradar24.com app shows how many planes are in the air worldwide at any one time. It illus - trates the scale of air traffic. • Each person has an annual budget of 1.5 tons of CO 2 , which must not be exceeded if global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 1.5 degrees. 5 For example, a flight from Copenhagen to Madrid and back uses up almost exactly half this annual budget, which also covers emissions for accommoda - tion, food, etc. 6 • The average amount of greenhouse gas emissions per capita in different countries is presented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita Here are a few more facts which workshop leaders can use for a more in-depth discussion on mobility: • These countries have the following number of motor vehicles (car, bus and lorry) per 1,000 inhabitants: Finland: 70, Poland: 771, Germany: 628, Belgium: 482, Bangladesh: 27, Malawi: 13 and North Korea: 1. If your country wasn’t included, take a look at the following article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita • A study by the RAC Foundation revealed, for example, that the average car in the UK is stationary for about 162 hours a week and is driven for only about six hours. This equates to a "parking ratio" of around 96 percent! 1 • The average speed of a car during rush hour in a major German city like Hamburg is around 20km/h. This means a car is not much faster than a bike. 2 • 2.25 billion people around the world flew on a plane in 2009; in 2019, 4.56 billion people travelled by plane, which means the number doubled in 10 years. 3 • Less than 20% of the world’s population has ever flown on a plane. 4 (Participants’ estimates are usually much higher.)
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