Zeoco: An insight into daily carbon footprint consumption

TL;DR

This paper introduces Zeoco, a smartphone app that measures individual daily carbon footprints from activities like travel and shopping, encouraging eco-friendly choices through rankings and rewards.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to quantifying personal carbon footprints and motivating behavioral change via gamification and real-time feedback.

Findings

Effective in raising awareness about personal carbon emissions

Encourages eco-friendly decisions through leaderboards and rewards

Provides a practical tool for daily environmental impact assessment

Abstract

Climate change, which is now considered one of the biggest threats to humanity, is also the reason behind various other environmental concerns. Continued negligence might lead us to an irreparably damaged environment. After the partial failure of the Paris Agreement, it is quite evident that we as individuals need to come together to bring about a change on a large scale to have a significant impact. This paper discusses our approach towards obtaining a realistic measure of the carbon footprint index being consumed by a user through day-to-day activities performed via a smart phone app and offering incentives in weekly and monthly leader board rankings along with a reward system. The app helps ease out decision makings on tasks like travel, shopping, electricity consumption, and gain a different and rather numerical perspective over the daily choices.