Short run “rebound effect” of COVID on the transport carbon footprint

Sustainable business models can help us move beyond the current consumer society and integrate sustainability into our lifestyles. The COVID-19 crisis was a strong test of sustainability for these models. In our study, we assessed which business models are highly dependent on the economic cycle and are highly embedded in consumer society. We conducted our research at the height of the second wave of the pandemic and asked university students about changes in their consumption patterns and their expectations for the future. We carried out cluster analysis on our sample of 622 respondents. We were interested in the extent to which participation in certain business models could be associated with the rebound effect that could be predicted after the epidemic. The stronger this effect, the more embedded a sustainable business model is in consumer society and the less able it is to reduce its environmental impacts in the long term. We found that resource efficiency, the sharing economy, and digitalization fall into this category. Participation in sufficiency and stewardship-based business models predicted much less rebound impact. These models showed more clearly the sustainability characteristics of sustainable business models.

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“…[47]. Barreiro-Gen et al [48] and Roja et al [49] also found a short-run rebound effect in the field of transport.…”

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Sustainable Business Models—Crisis and Rebound Based on Hungarian Research Experience

2022

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“…For example, some researchers analyzed the carbon footprint of international trade and found that China's implied carbon emissions increased due to trade [16,[36][37][38] . Some researchers studied the transportation sector's carbon footprint to promote the sustainable development of this sector within the region [39][40][41] . In the agricultural sector, although rarely observed at the macro level, the flow characteristics and trends of the carbon footprint can be reflected [16] .…”

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Carbon footprint in agriculture sector: a literature review

Zhang¹,

Zhao²,

Long³

et al. 2023

Carbon Footprints

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As the climate problem becomes more serious, controlling greenhouse gas emissions has become an overarching issue facing all countries. The agriculture sector is one of the main sources of carbon emissions. The measurement of its carbon footprint not only can quantitatively evaluate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions but also provide technical support for low-carbon agricultural construction. However, most reviews focus on the carbon footprint of manufacturing or international trade. Thus, this study selects the agriculture sector and summarizes the literature associated with the carbon footprint. First, this paper analyzes the different definitions of carbon footprint at macroscopic and microscopic levels. Then, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis is used to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of two main accounting methods, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Input-Output Analysis (IOA). Third, the research on carbon footprint in the agricultural sector is concluded and quantified using CiteSpace. Therefore, this paper gives the implications and prospects of carbon footprint in the agriculture sector. It is necessary to further agree on the definition of carbon footprint and consider other pollutants, water, and energy footprints to optimize agricultural management. Additionally, establishing a carbon footprint accounting model in line with local realities will provide scientific support for developing low-carbon agriculture.

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“…More people staying indoors or using safer forms of transport like cycling or walking may have reduced these emissions, as confirmed by studies by a number of authors [11,13,20,32,42]. On the other hand, the fear of coming into contact with an infected person has fostered a switch from public to private transport [1,6], and a number of authors believe that the decrease in emissions was too short-lived to have a relative effect [31,33]. Therefore, the article also features an attempt to answer the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland affected the trend in CO 2 emissions, taking into account different modes of transport.…”

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Modeling the dynamics of changes in CO2 emissions from Polish road transport in the context of COVID-19 and decarbonization requirements

Borucka¹,

Kozłowski²

2023

Combustion Engines

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Emissions from transport account for 20%–25% of global carbon dioxide emissions, with more than 70% coming from road transport, making it an extremely important topic in the context of decarbonization. The aim of the article is to analyze the trend of CO2 generated from road transport, taking into account the its various sources, and also to examine the manner in which reduced mobility during the pandemic affected the emissions at the time. For this purpose, a time series containing observations up to the pandemic outbreak and a time series containing additional observations from the pandemic period were analyzed. For each time series, a trend was determined and described by a polynomial and then verified to see if the pandemic phenomenon significantly affects a parameter of the proposed model, using appropriate statistical tests.

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Short run “rebound effect” of COVID on the transport carbon footprint

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Sustainable Business Models—Crisis and Rebound Based on Hungarian Research Experience

Sustainable Business Models—Crisis and Rebound Based on Hungarian Research Experience

Carbon footprint in agriculture sector: a literature review

Modeling the dynamics of changes in CO2 emissions from Polish road transport in the context of COVID-19 and decarbonization requirements

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