{"id":86923,"date":"2024-02-26T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/?p=86923"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:28:55","slug":"sur-lempreinte-carbone-des-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/sur-lempreinte-carbone-des-francais\/","title":{"rendered":"On the French Population\u2019s Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have devoted many column inches in these pages to various scenarios for ecological or energy transition, drawn up by both French and international bodies (International Energy Agency, French Ecological Transition Agency, RTE \/ France\u2019s Transmission System Operator etc.). Most of these foresight exercises have highlighted the fact that technical developments alone would not be sufficient \u2014 or would not move fast enough \u2014 to curb climate change by the end of the century, and that there had to be decisive efforts to change behaviour and lifestyles. In other words, an essential driver for safeguarding the planetary living conditions of future generations was the urgent promotion of ecological self-restraint. To that end, it is essential to be able to draw on indicators showing precisely where there is scope for manoeuvre for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is the aim of the \u2018carbon footprint\u2019, which measures the emissions made by all economic actors with relative precision. In this article, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Boutang looks in a more detailed way at the carbon footprint of the French population as it emerges from a survey which enquired into people\u2019s lifestyles and consumption patterns. After outlining the methodology and the virtues of this survey (based directly on behaviour), he enumerates its main findings: the distribution of the footprint by geographical location, business sector or socio-economic characteristics (based on income level or occupation) etc. This detailed \u2018profiling\u2019 enables us to see, at the individual level, the actions causing the highest emissions and to design remedial measures. It also allows policy-makers to identify the scope for action and possible levers for developing tools\/incentives to promote greater collective energy sobriety.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have devoted many column inches in these pages to various scenarios for ecological or energy transition, drawn up by both French and international bodies (International Energy Agency, French Ecological Transition Agency, RTE \/ France\u2019s Transmission System Operator etc.). Most of these foresight exercises have highlighted the fact that technical developments alone would not be … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1325,180],"tags":[202,212],"keyword":[878,1251,1004,897,1543,1238,966],"class_list":["post-86923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revue-futuribles-en","category-journal-article","tag-environnement-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-consommation-en","keyword-transition-en","keyword-indicateurs-en","keyword-modes-de-vie-en","keyword-pollution-en","keyword-societe-et-individu-en","keyword-analyse-sociologique-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104605,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86923\/revisions\/104605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86923"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=86923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}