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Doconomy and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) launches Lifestyle Calculator to enable individuals to get on top of their climate impact
Swedish impact tech pioneer Doconomy has — together with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — developed the Lifestyle Calculator to help individuals around the world gain a greater understanding of how their lifestyle affects the climate. With this service, the world gets an easy-to-use tool that empowers each and every one to take climate action.
"The Lifestyle Calculator is first and foremost a great education tool,” says Niclas Svenningsen, Manager at UN Climate Change. "Quite frankly, citizens around the world cannot be expected to take climate-smart decisions without first getting a proper grasp of their own climate impact. It is also a climate action tool, because once we know and understand the scale of our business-as-usual decisions, we can really act accordingly. This is why it is key to openly share this product and use it to unite against climate change.”
The Lifestyle Calculator allows individuals to answer a set of straightforward questions covering a range of activities – how we travel, what we eat, and where we live. In 10 minutes, everyone will have an insight into how their lifestyle affects the planet. New insights that will help people understand their impact and make climate-conscious decisions.
“It’s an absolute privilege for Doconomy to present the Lifestyle Calculator to any organisation in the world, together with the UNFCCC. To solve our climate crisis as a collective, we need to first understand how our everyday decisions affect the planet, and this service provides that very snapshot — in turn empowering us to commit towards reducing our impact”, says Milton Noel Malmestrom, Doconomy Product Manager.
The Lifestyle Calculator offers a standardised method so everyone can calculate their carbon footprint regardless of where they live in the world. The underlying data includes a set of UNFCCC-verified, publicly available, reputable sources that belong to credible and well recognized institutions. In addition, the full methodology will be publicly available to ensure full transparency of the calculations and underlying assumptions, and to encourage further collaboration around possible improvements or additions.
The Lifestyle Calculator will go live on the UNFCCC and Doconomy websites on September 24th.
Any organization interested in providing this service to their users are encouraged to contact Doconomy at lifestylecalculator@doconomy.com
For additional information – please contact:
Masse Benesch, Head of Communications
masse.benesch@doconomy.com +46 733 14 14 34
Milton Noel Malmestrom, Product Manager Lifestyle Calculator
milton@doconomy.com +46 731 45 10 37
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About Doconomy:
Doconomy, founded in Sweden in 2018, is a world-leading provider of applied impact solutions. Doconomy wants to future-proof life on planet earth by empowering individuals and corporations to take responsibility for their environmental footprint. Firmly believing that the climate crisis can only be solved as a collective, Doconomy is also a partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Mastercard, S&P Trucost, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and Parley for the Oceans.
About UNFCCC:
The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of the agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.
www.unfccc.int
