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What My 3-Week Trip to Vietnam Shows About the Realities of a Carbon Footprint
25.08.2023 - 14:16 / skift.com
One of the many aspects travel gets flogged over is its carbon emissions. If you’d like to contribute to setting the planet on fire, getting on a plane works. What about if you don’t? What about if you’d prefer to reduce your emissions? Skipping domestic flights is the obvious first step, but what next? With this in mind, I decided to track my carbon emissions over my recent three-week trip to Vietnam. Here’s what I found.
Before anything, I needed to decide what I should measure. Transport was a no-brainer, but what about food and accommodation? Although domestic flights removed from the equation, the other two categories can both be significant contributors. But how significant? Well, it depends. How do you travel? What do you eat and drink? Where do you stay? As it turns out, no two travelers are the same.
The two systems I tried out were the Capture app and the Path Net Zero calculator. While Capture has some issues, it is more appropriate for travelers looking to measure their carbon emissions. If you’re a tour company wanting to figure out the emissions of a trip, Path Net Zero is by far the better option. I used Capture during my trip while by the end of it, inputted the data from Capture into Path Net Zero.
There are some important differences between the two. Capture doesn’t include accommodation while Path Net Zero does and each takes a different approach to food. You can calculate the emissions from transport by distance or time, and I used time for both systems. However, the results were often quite different.
For example, Capture calculated 1,229.80 kilograms for my two flights while Path Net Zero came up with 824.52 kilograms. This highlighted how tricky flying can be. How full was the flight? What class was flown as Path Net Zero allowed me to select class while Capture doesn’t. What type of plane was it? How was the weather? These can all impact the amount of emissions allocated. That said, in the scheme of things, does it matter? Probably not — flying is the wrecking ball. Using Capture’s numbers, the two flights accounted for a whopping 74 percent of my total emissions.
OK, we all know flights suck for the planet. But what about if we removed flights? Then it got more interesting. With flights removed, train travel jumped to first place at 43 percent, then food at 26 percent motorbikes at 15 percent and cars at 12 percent. What about accommodation? A mere 5 percent. Why? I stay in small hotels and homestays.
If you thought flights were hard, measuring accommodation was a veritable snake pit. For most hotels, electricity is the main emissions source — air conditioners, kitchens, laundry, pools and hot water all need power. The more rooms, the more pools, the more restaurants, the more
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