Your Transport – how do you get around?
For all transport, do not count work travel, only commuting/personal travel.
How would travel affect my CO2 footprint?
In 2022, 19% of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions came from the transport. Road transport makes up almost all (95%) of all transport emissions and passenger cars make about half of all road transport emissions. Between 1990 and 2022, emissions from transport more than doubled. If we are to beat cliame change we have to change our travel emissions
Cars, buses, trains) emit different amounts of CO2 emissions for every kilometre travelled per passenger. Because buses and trains carry more people per trip, they save a large count of CO2. For example:
- a typical train from Cork to Dublin replaces 90 cars on Irish roads and saves 1.6 tonnes of CO2 for every journey
- a typical double decker bus in Dublin replaces 16 cars from Irish roads
Read about how Maeve saved as much CO2 as planting eight trees by switching to using the bus
In your transport results (on the next page) we'll give you tips about how you can reduce your transport carbon footprint, including information about great community groups and projects that will help give you some very useful sustainability contacts.