European Mobility Week is celebrated from September 16 to 22 and from the Ecoserveis association we support this initiative dedicated to promoting more sustainable, safe and healthy mobility habits for another year.
Sustainable mobility is one of Ecoserveis’ strategic lines. That is why we apply efficiency measures and give priority to the use of public transport and to travel on foot or by bicycle whenever possible. Additionally, we facilitate teleworking in necessary cases and follow criteria of both environmental sustainability and resource optimization when scheduling face-to-face meetings or participating in events.
Our action
During the 2018 edition , we calculated the CO2 emissions generated from our travel between work and our homes. This year we will repeat this action and add the estimate of the emissions generated as a result of the development of our activity globally during 2018. We thus present a snapshot of our mobility footprint. The objective is to become aware of how we travel, evaluate our environmental impact, establish a record that allows us to compare its annual evolution and design and implement improvements in order to maintain the minimum level of emissions necessary for the offer of our services.
As we did in 2018, throughout this week we will calculate the CO2 emissions generated between our homes and work. We will then present a comparison of the emissions generated versus those that would have been generated if we had used a traditional combustion car. This will be our small contribution to contributing to the adoption of more efficient practices when it comes to moving around.
In order to make the estimate, we will use as our main tool the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator (GHG) of the Catalan Office for Climate Change, updated in 2019.
A week to reflect
Systematizing the daily calculation of our carbon footprint in mobility has not been easy. Although we overcame the challenge of individually tracking our trips and analyzing the total associated CO2 emissions, this task allowed us to reflect and we wanted to carry out a more exhaustive analysis of the data generated throughout the previous year.
This year, sustainable mobility week coincided with two plane trips that are not usually part of our daily lives. Between the 9 people who traveled that week, we traveled a total of 6,240 kilometers, while during a typical week we travel a maximum distance of approximately 1082 kilometers.
This difference in both distance and means of transport was reflected in the amount of CO2 emissions that unfortunately coincided with Sustainable Mobility Week. If in a normal week we have an average of 33 kg of CO2 emissions, that week we emitted 953 kg: a considerable increase that triggered an internal reflection on the difficulties of using other means of transport for trips outside Spain.
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