Carbon Evidence https://carbonevidence.org Personal carbon footprints, life-cycle assessment, and which changes actually move the number. en Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Which personal changes actually move the number? https://carbonevidence.org/what-actually-matters/ https://carbonevidence.org/what-actually-matters/ Consumption-based household carbon accounting and mitigation potential — the ranking that consumer advice usually gets backwards. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer The food footprint https://carbonevidence.org/food/ https://carbonevidence.org/food/ Life-cycle assessment of food, dietary shift interventions, and why within-category variation complicates simple advice. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Flying, contrails and the number your calculator omits https://carbonevidence.org/flying/ https://carbonevidence.org/flying/ Aviation emissions including non-CO₂ radiative forcing — why the effective warming impact is roughly double the CO₂ figure. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer About Carbon Evidence https://carbonevidence.org/about/ https://carbonevidence.org/about/ Who publishes Carbon Evidence, how pages are researched, and how the site makes money. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Editorial policy https://carbonevidence.org/editorial-policy/ https://carbonevidence.org/editorial-policy/ How Carbon Evidence selects evidence, scores products and handles conflicts of interest. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Affiliate and partnership disclosure https://carbonevidence.org/disclosure/ https://carbonevidence.org/disclosure/ Every commercial relationship that could affect what you read on Carbon Evidence. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Privacy https://carbonevidence.org/privacy/ https://carbonevidence.org/privacy/ What Carbon Evidence collects — which is close to nothing. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 5 October 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-10-05/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-10-05/ 4 newly indexed peer-reviewed papers relevant to Carbon Evidence, from 5 October 2026. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 28 September 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-28/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-28/ 4 newly indexed peer-reviewed papers relevant to Carbon Evidence, from 28 September 2026. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 21 September 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-21/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-21/ 1 newly indexed peer-reviewed papers relevant to Carbon Evidence, from 21 September 2026. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 14 September 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-14/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-14/ 1 newly indexed peer-reviewed papers relevant to Carbon Evidence, from 14 September 2026. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 7 September 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-07/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-09-07/ 9 newly indexed peer-reviewed papers relevant to Carbon Evidence, from 7 September 2026. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Research digest, 8 August 2026 https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-08-08/ https://carbonevidence.org/research/2026-08-08/ No newly indexed research matched this site's topics in the week of 8 August 2026. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Diet shift: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/diet-shift/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/diet-shift/ 18 publications on diet shift — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Health cobenefits: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/health-cobenefits/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/health-cobenefits/ 6 publications on health cobenefits — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Behaviour change: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/behaviour-change/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/behaviour-change/ 9 publications on behaviour change — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Food footprint: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/food-footprint/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/food-footprint/ 7 publications on food footprint — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Lca food: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-lca-food/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-lca-food/ 16 publications on lca food — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Household footprint: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-household-footprint/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-household-footprint/ 14 publications on household footprint — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Carbon labelling: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/carbon-labelling/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/carbon-labelling/ 6 publications on carbon labelling — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Heating: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-heating/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-heating/ 10 publications on heating — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Aviation: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-aviation/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/xr-aviation/ 11 publications on aviation — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Transport emissions: what the evidence base looks like https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/transport-emissions/ https://carbonevidence.org/evidence/transport-emissions/ 8 publications on transport emissions — how many trials, how much synthesis, how recent, and what that means. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Does eating less meat cut your footprint? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/eating-less-meat/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/eating-less-meat/ Well supported. One of the largest single changes available to an individual, and the size of it surprises most people. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Does buying local food reduce emissions? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/local-food/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/local-food/ Widely believed, weakly supported. The most popular food-and-climate action, and one of the least effective, because transport is a small share of food emi Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Does changing how you heat your home matter? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/heating-changes/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/heating-changes/ Well supported. In most of Europe, heating is one of the two largest components of a household footprint. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer How much does flying matter? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/flying-less/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/flying-less/ Well supported. For people who fly, it is often the single largest item — and it is highly concentrated in a minority of travellers. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Do carbon labels change what people buy? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/carbon-labels/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/carbon-labels/ Promising but unsettled. They shift choices measurably, by less than their advocates hope and more than their critics allow. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Is recycling the most useful thing you can do? https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/recycling/ https://carbonevidence.org/does-it-work/recycling/ Widely believed, weakly supported. Worth doing, and consistently over-ranked by the public relative to heating, transport and diet. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer Do Heat Pumps Actually Cut Home Heating Emissions? https://carbonevidence.org/heat-pumps/ https://carbonevidence.org/heat-pumps/ Heat pumps cut heating emissions almost everywhere, but the size of the gain depends on your grid. What the engineering studies actually measured. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer The health co-benefits of low-carbon choices https://carbonevidence.org/health-cobenefits/ https://carbonevidence.org/health-cobenefits/ Low-carbon choices also cut air pollution, improve diets and get people moving. What the Lancet Countdown and the co-benefit reviews found. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Sprauer