Carbon Footprint Cruise Ships

The report says that a mid-sized cruise ship can use as much as 150 tonnes of fuel each day which emits as much particulate as one million cars.

Carbon footprint cruise ships. According to leading independent German pollution analyst Axel Friedrich a single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions and 450kg of ultra fine particles a day. Based on an estimated total number of about 258 million cruise ship passengers in 2017 it can be estimated that the average cruise ship passenger emits 082 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent for their cruise. Each cruise ship that connects to shore power can avoid emitting about 34 metric tons of CO2 the equivalent GHGs emitted by an average car driving between Seattle and New York about 30 times.

All that adds up to 040 kilograms of carbon being emitted per passenger per kilometer on your typical cruise ship according to a 2008 study. In 2015 for example cruise ships emitted about 19106 kilo-tonnes of CO2-equivalent. Your carbon footprint is high When you hop onto a cruise your carbon footprint rises.

Infographic on the evolution of greenhouse gas emissions by. A passengers carbon footprint triples in size when taking a cruise and the emissions produced can contribute to serious health issues. Final official version can be found using the Digital Object Identifier DOI listed here.

In fact every persons carbon footprint on a cruise is about three times as high as it would be on land. In one example they synthesised six papers on carbon dioxide emissions which have significant impacts on both human and environmental health through contributing to global warming. Cruises and ferries in the Mediterranean one of the most popular tourist destinations were responsible for an estimated 10 percent of all ship CO2 emissions the researchers also show.

Its time to abandon cruising as usual said Tom Siebens a GCAN activist in a press release Monday. It is not uncommon for cruise. Use the myclimate cruise calculator to determine the carbon footprint of your cruise trip as well as the amount that is required for carbon offsetting.

This represents about 02 of global emissions from fossil fuel consumption and cement production. The Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard visualises the carbon dioxide emissions from the above cruise ship companies and estimates the remainder based on market share. Ships are responsible for more than 18 percent of some air pollutants.