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willemfrishert
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| ### We will drive half the distance in private cars | ||
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| The largest group of Czech drivers drive between <!--[-->5 and 10 thousand km<!--](https://www.opojisteni.cz/pojistny-trh/pojistne-produkty/pruzkum-pojistovny-direct-jak-cesi-jezdi/c:11746/)--> per year and passenger cars are responsible for a total of 11.9 million tonnes of <glossary id="co2eq">CO<sub>2</sub>eq</glossary> emissions in the Czech Republic. **If the total annual mileage were halved, about 5.9 million tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions would be saved annually.** |
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| Together, the consumption of milk and milk products can be expressed in terms of the value needed for production. The average consumption is 239 litres of milk per person per year (equivalent to 245 kg). The entire cycle of producing one kg of milk (including feed, methane production, refrigeration, transport, etc.) produces an average of 2.8 kg CO<sub>2</sub>eq of greenhouse gas emissions. The total emissions associated with the consumption of milk and dairy products in the Czech Republic are 7.3 million tonnes CO<sub>2</sub>eq. If the Czech Republic's population halved its dairy product consumption, 3.7 million tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub>eq would be saved. | ||
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| Many studies suggest that changes in dietary habits could positively impact health, for example, because approximately 71% of men and 57% of women in the <!--[-->Czech Republic are overweight<!--](https://www.ceskovdatech.cz/clanek/85-povolujeme-opasky-cechu-s-nadvahou-vyrazne-pribyva/)-->. Whether changing dietary habits is realistic for a large part of the population is a question beyond the scope of our text. |
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| **If reduced electricity consumption in households led to the shutdown of gas and coal-fired power plants, then for every kWh saved, about 1 kg of emissions would not be generated.** This value is based on Decree No. 480/2012 Coll. on Energy Audit and Energy Assessment and takes into account that a large part of household electricity is consumed at peak times, which often have to be covered by the most emitting sources of electricity. **A 50% reduction in consumption would therefore result in a saving of 7.6 million tonnes of <glossary id="co2eq">CO<sub>2</sub>eq</glossary>.** This is a rather exaggerated estimate of savings, as the real emission intensity for peak operation in 2020 is likely to be slightly lower than that set out in the abovementioned decree. | ||
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| Most household electricity is used for cooking and heating water (or heating if it is electric). Washing machines and refrigerators use less, and the least amount of electricity is used for lighting. However, electricity provides water heating in about 20% of Czech households and is used for cooking in more than 40% of households<!--(see [CSO statistics](https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/50619982/ENERGO_2015.pdf), Table 1 - 3.3)-->. It is, therefore, questionable whether it is possible to achieve a significant reduction in household consumption. If inefficient boilers and stoves are used for heating, it is desirable to increase consumption to replace them with a heat pump, for example. Some savings could be achieved by preheating water with solar collectors or using surplus electricity from photovoltaic cells. Savings in cooking could be achieved, for example, by using an induction cooker. Replacing conventional light bulbs with LEDs or other more efficient light sources has little effect on electricity consumption. |
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| Higher savings would be achieved by implementing a [scenario](/studies/2018-scenario-energynautics) developed in 2018 by the German consultancy **Energynautics** on behalf of Czech environmental NGOs. According to this study, which primarily focused on the electricity grid's stability when most coal-fired power plants are shut down, **the resulting emissions would fall by around 16 million tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub>eq**. The study envisaged replacing the capacity of the decommissioned coal-fired power plants mainly with new photovoltaic (+162 % of installed capacity) and wind (+635 % of installed capacity, equivalent to just under six hundred newly installed wind power plants with a unit capacity of 3 MW). In this case, grid stability would also be supported by new gas-fired power plants (+95 % of installed capacity). | ||
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| According to the **McKinsey** study, implementing the decarbonisation <!--[-->scenario<!--](/studie/2020-scenar-mckinsey)--> would achieve similar emission savings in the electricity industry. This study models the development in the energy sector, as well as in industry, agriculture, transport and other sectors, looking for the cost-optimal way to decarbonise. In addition to emissions reductions by 2030, it also examines full climate neutrality by 2050. Savings in 2030 are achieved by a similar reduction in coal-fired power generation as in the Energynautics study. Still, compared to that study, McKinsey assumes a more gradual development of solar (+120% of installed capacity) and wind (+230% of installed capacity). The difference in the electricity balance is then offset by imports from abroad. |
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Unable to find this study in English. This is the Czech link: https://faktaoklimatu.cz/studie/2020-scenar-mckinsey
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| ### Planting 10 million extra trees | ||
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| Tree planting is seen as an important tool for carbon <glossary id="sequestration">sequestration</glossary>, which is reflected in some policy <!--[-->statements<!--](https://www.facebook.com/AndrejBabis/posts/1636697499800221/)-->. Ten million trees are chosen symbolically (one tree per citizen of the Czech Republic) and also in connection with the same goal of the project Planting the Future, founded by the Partnership Foundation and supported by the Ministry of the Environment. The project aims to plant 10 million new trees outside the forest area by 2025 (i.e. creating new alleys, orchards, thickets, windbreaks, etc.). |
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Not sure how to handle this link to FB post: https://www.facebook.com/AndrejBabis/posts/1636697499800221/ . If we cannot translate it to English, do we want to translate it ourselves?
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| Tree planting is seen as an important tool for carbon <glossary id="sequestration">sequestration</glossary>, which is reflected in some policy <!--[-->statements<!--](https://www.facebook.com/AndrejBabis/posts/1636697499800221/)-->. Ten million trees are chosen symbolically (one tree per citizen of the Czech Republic) and also in connection with the same goal of the project Planting the Future, founded by the Partnership Foundation and supported by the Ministry of the Environment. The project aims to plant 10 million new trees outside the forest area by 2025 (i.e. creating new alleys, orchards, thickets, windbreaks, etc.). | ||
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| According to the latest <!--[-->national forest inventory<!--](http://nil.uhul.cz/)--> conducted in 2011-2015, there are about 2 billion trees in Czech forests (not counting young trees up to 7 cm thick). This amount of trees corresponds to approximately 190 trees per inhabitant. |
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| ### Sequestration on arable land (change of management) | ||
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| Agricultural soils naturally fix carbon and the amount of carbon fixed increases or decreases over the years depending on the farming technique chosen. Over the past decades, long-term studies have been carried out in different parts of the world comparing farming techniques according to their sequestration potential. According to a <!--[-->study<!--](https://aa.ecn.cz/img_upload/410697af7dfcb092dfd4e3937dd69e3f/klima_co2_web_final.pdf)--> by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (part of the United Nations), a hectare of land cultivated under organic farming can store around 200 kg of CO<sub>2</sub> annually. When minimum tillage techniques are added, the sequestration potential increases to about 500 kg of CO<sub>2</sub> per year. On depleted soils, this sequestration can be even higher; long-term studies show that the sequestration potential does not decrease much even after 30 years of such farming. |
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| caption: "The infographic compares the amount of emissions that can be reduced if people radically change their consumption habits with the amount that can be cut via system changes implemented by the government. The highest potential is in the change of the Czech energy generation mix: shut down the lignite power plants and replace them with energy sources that have lower emission intensity." | ||
| data-our: "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mfua6djrufHgLh2MjNLxkJd7NxtaK1vVX2m8xLPGZLg/edit?usp=sharing" | ||
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| ## How to read this graph? |
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Task of #14: Add English texts to the published infographics
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