For carbon emissions, this means reducing the CO2 contribution of each and every one of the six and a half billion people on the planet. But what can you, as an individual person or family, does that will most make a difference to the big picture? Here are my top ten action items, which are both simple to achieve and have a real effect. They are ranked by how much impact they make to ‘kicking the CO2 habit’.
1. Make climate-conscious political decisions.
2. Eat less red meat
3. Purchase “green electricity“.
4. Cap and Trade and Market-Based Controls.
5. Make your home and household energy efficient.
6. Buy energy and water efficient appliances
7. Walk, cycle or take public transport
8. Recycle, re-use and avoid useless purchases
9. Telecommute and teleconference
10. Buy local produce
11. Offset what you can’t save.
12. Carbon-Free and Reduced-Carbon Energy Sources.
13. Carbon Capture and Sequestration.
14. Voluntary Carbon Dioxide Cap and Trade Approaches
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint From Driving
Alternatives to driving. When possible, walk or ride your bike in order to avoid carbon emissions completely. Carpooling and public transportation drastically reduce CO2 emissions by spreading them out over many riders.
Drive a low carbon vehicle. High mileage doesn’t always mean low CO2 emissions. All vehicles have an estimated miles-per-gallon rating. Electric cars emit no CO2 if they’re charged with clean electricity. If you don’t charge it with your home’s solar panels AND live somewhere like WY, MO, MO, WV, or KY you’re BETTER OFF with a hybrid or high-mileage gas/diesel car. Here’s why. After incentives and gas savings, it essentially costs nothing to switch to an electric car like the the Nissan Leaf.
Get a hitch-mounted cargo rack. Don’t buy a minivan or SUV if you don’t need 4WD and/or will only occasionally need the extra space. A receiver hitch and a rack like this one only cost a few hundred bucks. Avoid roof-top boxes, which cost much more, increase aerodynamic drag, and decrease fuel economy.
Driving style. Speeding and unnecessary acceleration reduce mileage by up to 33%, waste gas and money, and increase your carbon footprint.
Tire inflation and other tuning. Properly inflated tires improve your gas mileage by up to 3%. It also helps to use the correct grade of motor oil, and to keep your engine tuned, because some maintenance fixes, like fixing faulty oxygen sensors, can increase fuel efficiency by up to 40%.
Avoid traffic. Being stuck in traffic wastes gas and unnecessarily creates CO2. Use traffic websites and apps and go a different way or wait.
Misc. Combine errands to make fewer trips. Remove excess weight from your car. Use cruise control.
There is Kyoto agreement for reducing CO2 emissions.The main reason is Fossil fuel. Some nations did not sign this agreement as it destroys its economy. This is mankind, always destroying the environment.
The most popular technique is post combustion CO2 capture (PCC) using amines as adsorbent. The captured CO2 can be converted to fuels and specialty chemicals by catalytic, electrocatalytic or photocatalytic reduction. This could help: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308929155_Insight_into_catalytic_reduction_of_CO2_Catalysis_and_reactor_design
Article Insight into catalytic reduction of CO2: Catalysis and reactor design