Employees in Gothenburg to get CO2 counter tool
Written by Richard Sinclair.
Some 2,000 employees in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden, are to receive access to the Volvo Group’s personal carbon dioxide (CO2) counter, which enables people to see how much CO2 they are using when on the move.
The service can be accessed online and iPhone users can download the Commute Greener application from the App Store and input the transport they use to commute to and from work or on any other journey.
Commute Greener will then calculate how much CO2 is emitted by their car as they follow its car headlights around the streets of Gothenberg or by the other mode of transport they have chosen.
Magnus Holmqvist, from Volvo, said: "Commute Greener has already been launched within the Volvo Group. The same tool will now make it possible for 2,000 employees within the City of Gothenburg to understand the most efficient and environmentally sound way to commute in any given scenario, and change their commuting habits."
According to the government’s Act on CO2 website, cars produce 44 per cent of the total amount of CO2 emitted by all modes of transport in the UK, compared to buses, which account for just two per cent of these emissions.
I see you are interested in global warming and everything else that comes with it. I would just like to share my disappointment at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate council. The summit was supposed to halt temperature rise by cutting greenhouse gases. But after two weeks of negotiating it ended in a weak political accord that does not force any country to reduce emissions and has no legal standing anyway. As a result the world is “one step closer to a humanitarian crisis”, according to the Royal Society. It looks like it is every man for themselves but if your far away neighbors don’t do anything to halt it, what is the point. Here in Scotland, Scottish Hydro has shown the way forward with supplying clean hydro electric power from sources like, hydro damns and wind turbine farms but is it all in vein? It could well be.