Skip to content

When A Teen Goes Green

About an eco-positive lifestyle

Menu
  • Home
    • What is an eco-positive lifestyle?
    • New? Start here!
  • How to guides
  • Reducing negative impact
    • Veganism
    • Minimalism
    • Zero Waste
    • Sustainable Traveling
    • Sustainable and Fair Fashion
    • Intersectional Feminism
    • Circular Economy
    • The 9 Planetary Boundaries
  • Increasing positive impact
  • Inspiration
    • Recipes
    • Hotspots
    • Organizations and apps
    • Books, documentaries, films, series and podcasts
    • Books, Films and Series List
  • Personal
    • My Ideal World
    • About me and this blog
Menu
Carbon Killer Logo.

Destroying CO2 with Carbon Killer

Posted on January 17, 2022November 24, 2022

I hear a lot of people around me complaining about the role of industry in this climate crisis. Why should we individuals change when industry just keeps on polluting? Earlier I wrote a post on why we shouldn’t think like that and that we all have a role in this crisis. But even if you disagree and think industry should change and not us individuals, I have something exciting to share. Today I am telling you about: destroying CO2 with Carbon Killing.

EU ETS for CO2

In 2005 the European Union set up an emission trading scheme, the EU ETS. It’s set up to combat the climate crisis in an economically efficient way. Here’s how the system works. From 2005 onwards CO2 emissions are to be traded on a market. The EU sets a limit on how many CO2 emissions can be emitted per year. They set a so-called ‘cap’. Let’s just fictionally say they set a cap of 100 tons of CO2 emissions, that’s then the maximum all EU companies can emit together. Let’s say a fictional company wants to emit 1 tons of CO2 that year, they have to buy this permit on the EU ETS market. They have to pay for their emissions. The EU lowers the cap every year by a certain percentage until the cap is at zero. And so, slowly but surely emissions are lowered and eventually eliminated.

Flaws

Seems like a great idea, right? I agree, this system is a good thing. It does have flaws unfortunately. It’s still a political measure and politicians are receptive to lobbying. This makes that not all industries are included in the EU ETS, the cap is set too high, the cap does not decrease fast enough, not all greenhouse gases are included, the price of the permits is too low and the EU even gives free permits to certain companies. As I said, it has flaws. The emissions under the EU ETS are decreasing by 2.2% each year. Unfortunately, this number is not based on science. We need emissions to go down faster. Politicians are working on all these issues and it’s improving, but we’re not where we should be yet.

Carbon Killer

That’s where the Carbon Killer comes in. And that’s where we as individuals come in. We don’t have to feel powerless. We can literally force industry to change. Not by protesting or asking, but by buying up and destroying CO2 with Carbon Killer. On the Carbon Killer website you can enter the EU ETS market and buy up emissions permits. After you’ve purchased the amount of tons of CO2, the Carbon Killer buys the permits and destroys them. It costs 89 euros to destroy 1 ton of CO2.

It currently costs 89 euros to destroy 1 ton of CO2

Carbon Killer

Destroying CO2 with Carbon Killer

So, let’s go back to this example I mentioned above. The EU sets a cap of 100 tons of CO2 for example. If we then buy all the permits for that 100 tons of CO2 and destroy them, companies have no means left to emit CO2. Companies are forced to entirely cut their emissions. And even if we buy 50 permits, or 10, we prevent all this CO2 from being emitted! It’s horrible that money has all this power, but still. We as individuals can force companies to change. The more permits we buy, the faster we combat this climate crisis.

Privilege

Of course this tool is only available for privileged people. If you have money, you can make a difference here. That’s not fair, but it also means that we privileged people should act. Personally, I think I will use the tool for compensation. Once a year, I calculate my personal impact. I probably can see how much CO2 I have emitted that year and then I buy up the equal amount of permits. That means I have compensated all my behavior, even though I already live within the earth’s capacity! But of course for this tool the rule the more the better applies.

Let’s force those companies to change!

Yours sincerely,
Romee

This post is not sponsored, none of my posts are.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Search for anything

Want to get an update every time I post something?

Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 273 other subscribers.

ABOUT ME

 

when a teen goes green

Hi! My name is Romee Hoeksma and I am on a journey to an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle in which I have a more positive than negative impact on the beautiful planet earth. On this blog you can follow my journey to a life with only positive impact. At this blog you can find all sorts of things, from tips to recipes to personal experiences, but most of all fun (I hope!). I write about how I want to change the world, but don’t look at it as if I’m judging you. If anything, I like responses from my dear readers the most, so don’t hesitate to contact me or respond to any of my posts!

Yours sincerely,
Romee

Here’s what I posted most recently

  • Zero waste groceries at Pieter Pot
  • The best vegan ice-cream, desserts and yoghurt
  • I am a poop donor
  • Why I never light candles
  • 4 podcast tips from May 2023

Translate this site

Follow me on Instagram

Vandaag een artikel op mijn blog over Pieter Pot. Een webshop voor verpakkingsvrije boodschappen πŸ₯œ. Een geweldig concept die jou helpt je afval te verminderen Γ©n er ook nog eens heel goed uit ziet in je keuken #nospon. Je leest het nu via de link in mijn bio. Een greep uit de vegan maaltijden die ik at in mei 2023 πŸ§†. Als ik zo terugkijk heb ik de italiaanse weer helemaal ontdekt, haha! Maar het hoogtepunt was wel echt de vegan, zero waste, kaassaus die ik maakte voor over de nachoschotel 🫘. Welke vegan ijs-, toetjes- of yoghurtproducten zijn het lekkerst? Ik zette het voor je op een rijtje in een artikel die vanaf vandaag te lezen is 🍧. Je vindt de link in mijn bio. Spoiler: deze van Hertog staat er zeker tussen! #plantaardig #vegan #blogger ✨ 4 tweedehands outfits die ik droeg in mei 2023 πŸ‘—. Ik had op iets beter weer en iets koudere outfits gehoopt, maar goed, dat schuiven we dan maar naar juni! Ik ben poepdonor πŸ’©. Ja, Γ©cht. Ik doe mee met een wetenschappelijk onderzoek waarbij mijn darmflora gebruikt wordt om mensen met een leveraandoening te genezen. Ik ben zo blij met de positieve impact die ik hiermee kan maken! En ik krijg er nog betaald voor ook. Meer weten? Lees het artikel dat ik erover schreef via de link in mijn bio. Binnenkort zal ik er ook een Youtube-video aan wijden. #donor #positieveimpact #nafldnashresearch Minimaliseren en ontspullen blijft een ongoing process πŸ“¦. Ik vind dat ik niet al te veel spullen heb, maar toch geef ik nog geregeld spullen weg aan de kringloopwinkel. In deze reel laat ik de laatste 5 items aan je zien. Plantaardiger eten hoeft niet moeilijk te zijn, je moet net even weten welke producten vegan zijn. Vandaag deel ik een makkelijke swap voor mayonaise 🍟. Het is weer mei! En dat betekent dat er weer een artikel met podcast-tips op mijn blog staat (de vijfde in de reeks inmiddels!). Vandaag lees je over 4 podcasts die ik aan bijna iedereen zou aanraden 🎧. 5 vegan maaltijden die ik at in april 2023 πŸ₯™. En ja, Γ©cht alles is vegan. Want elk gerecht is te veganizen.

Read my latest posts

  • Zero waste groceries at Pieter Pot
  • The best vegan ice-cream, desserts and yoghurt
  • I am a poop donor
  • Why I never light candles
  • 4 podcast tips from May 2023

Subscribe by e-mail

©2023 When A Teen Goes Green | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com