Choose your favorite influencer to offset for a year. This climate+ package includes their travel, hotel stays, phone use and the shipping for all their favourite products.
What Does climate+ Mean?
How Can We Do Better?
- •Turning your thermostat down by two degrees.
- •Wearing clothes more than once before washing them.
- •Biking, walking, or riding the bus to work!
- •Switching over to LED bulbs and smart appliances.
- •Trying to buy local, seasonal fruits and vegetables.
- •Using waxed cloth instead of plastic wrap for food.
- •Remembering your reusable bags, mugs, and cutlery for outings.
The Impact Of Trees
Why Trees
What Does ‘Sequestering’ Mean to tentree?
Where Do We Plant Your Trees?
The Math
The Math
This climate+ package includes your favourite influencers travel, hotel stays, phone use and the shipping for all their favourite products.
| Travel | 37.007 MT CO2 |
| Hotels | 6.2 MT CO2 |
| Shipments | 2.99 MT CO2 |
| Instagram Use | 0.0012144 MT CO2 |
| Time on Phone | 12.6MT CO2 |
| Total | 58.7982 MT CO2 |
Traveling
The average plane emits 115 grams of carbon per kilometer. We use the conversion factor 0.000001 to get from grams to metric tons and we get 0.000115 MT of CO2 per kilometer of air travel. 115grams x 0.000001 = 0.000115 MT Carbon An extreme example of influencer travel would be 400,000 miles per year. Let’s use 200,000 kilometres of travel as an example. If we multiply that number by 1.609 we get the number in kilometres . 200,000miles x 1.609 = 321,800 km In order to get the total of metric tons we multiply kilometres traveled by 0.000115 MT CO2, which equals 37 MT CO2 over a year. 321,800 km x 0.000115 MT CO2 = 37.007 MT CO2
Hotel
Hotels emit about 31kg of CO2 per room per night. Assuming an influencer stays at a hotel for 200 nights per year, and each night emits 31kg CO2, the total annual emissions would equal 6,200kg CO2. 31kg x 200 nights = 6,200 kg CO2 per year We use the conversion factor 0.001 to get from kg of CO2 to MT CO2 and get a total of 6.2 MT CO2. 6,200kg CO2 x 0.001 = 6.2 MT CO2
Shipments
We know the average plane emits 115grams of carbon per kilometer. We use the conversion factor 0.000001 to get from grams to metric tons and we get 0.000115 MT of CO2 per kilometer of air travel. 115grams x 0.000001 = 0.000115 MT Carbon In order to calculate the total amount of MT of CO2 per shipment, we will multiply the shipment distances by 0.00015 MT CO2 per kilometer of travel. We are going to assume influencers receive packages about once per week and that these packages are delivered within 500 kilometres. There are 52 weeks per year, meaning total shipping distance would equal 26,000 kilometres annually. 52 weeks x 500 km = 26,000 kilometres annually As outlined above, the average plane emits 0.000115 MT CO2 per kilometer traveled. In order to get the total shipment emissions, we multiply kilometres flown by the 0.000115 MT CO2 per kilometer and get 2.99 MT CO2. 26,000km x 0.000115 MT CO2 = 2.99 MT CO2
Instagram Use
Instagram emits 5.06g CO2 per post. The average influencer will post about 20 times per month so about 240 times per year. If we multiple the emissions per post by the posts per year we get the total emissions from posts. 20 times per month x 12 months = 240 per year 5.06g CO2 x 240 posts = 1,214.4 grams of CO2 In order to get grams in metric tons we use the conversion factor 0.000001 and get 0,001214.4 MT CO2. 1,214.4g CO2 x 0.0000001 = 0.0012144 MT CO2
Time on Phone
If a person uses their phone for one hour per day over a year they would emit 1.4 tons of CO2, the average influencer uses their phone for 9 hours per day. If we multiply 1.4 tons for one hour of usage by 9 hours of usage we get a total of 12.6 MT CO2 per year 1.4 MT CO2 x 9 hours per day = 12.6MT CO2
Total
In total if we add all the emissions together we get 58.7982 MT CO2 37.007 MT + 0.0012144 MT + 2.99 MT + 12.6 MT + 6.2 MT = 58.7982 MT CO2
Link - Kilometres of Travel - https://www.pixlee.com/blog/10-travel-influencers-your-brand-should-partner-with/
Link - Hotels - https://considerategroup.com/carbon-emissions/
Link - Emission from Posting - https://www.core-econ.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Data-competition-selfie.pdf
Link - Emissions from Phone Use - https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/a-year-of-cell-phone-use-emits-as-much-CO2-as-two-round-trip-flights/
Link - Influencer Phone Usage - https://www.agilitypr.com/pr-news/public-relations/new-research-shows-influencers-screen-time-is-shockingly-high/