Road traffic causes, but 10.6% of greenhouse gas

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While the mercury outside again to pleasant height increases, the green bankers of the ASN bank, the emission of greenhouse gases of only a small part is due to cars. We give you an overview.

The ASN bank is a bastion of sustainability, responsibility and profit-which, until recently, Femke Halsema, the president of the council of advice. Often invests ASN in mortgages of mother SNS, but sometimes to paste, they also have their company name on what sustainable projects. Well, it’s not easy to be green, be Kermit?

Finally, in 2013 ASN a flowchart published that the global emissions of greenhouse gases in map, on the basis of data from 2010. Now there is an update with data for 2012. What are except Femke’s old Mercedes diesel, the largest polluters?

Transport is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions. Road traffic 10,6%
All of the specific emission-details you can check in these colourful large flowchart (1280px), but we explain the relevant ‘highlights’ to get out there. The most interesting thing for us car enthusiasts is the heading ‘Transport’. According to the reporting of ASN is the whole transport sector is responsible for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The traffic takes 1.5% for his account, the trains 0.5% and road traffic, so by 10.6%. The other 1,9% comes from other traffic, such as the filthy shipping.

So, a small 11% of the greenhouse gas is caused by all the cars and trucks on the globe. You can imagine what the relatively tiny Dutch fleet contributes. Is it not a touch of exaggeration, that we in the Netherlands tens of thousands of dollars more to the rags for a Mustang V8 than our neighbors? The answer is: Yes.

Industry biggest polluter
The proportion of CO2 derived from fossil fuels and industrial processes is relative to the previous measuring point has increased by 2% to 67% of the total. Of them 29% of emissions from the industry, from the combustion of fossil fuels and industrial processes. Half of the emissions by the burning of fossil fuels comes from coal combustion. The industry would therefore, according to ASN, the largest contribution to the warming of the earth.

Deforestation reduces
You expect the not, but also on the felling of trees is there extra CO2 in the air. From the flowchart it appears that the emissions from deforestation in 2013, almost 8% of the total amounted to. However, that is a decrease compared to 2010, when deforestation was responsible for more than 10% of the total global emissions of greenhouse gases. The recent events in Canada will not, however, such a positive impact on this figure.

By burning coal, we sit on a number of years on hot coals
Coal combustion is still the most polluting form of energy generation: 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from coal. It also occurs within the built-up environment, a large part of the emissions of coal combustion.

So far this episode of ‘Autoblog talks you through how the world goes under’. Stay tuned for more hot news on the hot earth.