Environmental data also helps you avoid advocating solutions that may solve one social issue at the expense of creating a supply chain or consumption demand from the environment that will make life more difficult for people in the longer term.

Just because the data shows relatively low levels, don’t assume that you’re safe from the effects.

Regardless of how involved or informed you are in climate activism, you have likely come across campaigns and reports around emissions. This is because emissions are a very important factor in the current conversation on the human impact on climate change and global warming, particularly from more macro contributors.

The average citizen should have as many ways as possible to understand why emissions data is important and how we use this information to shape policies and campaigns that affect communities. We have put together some key points around greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data to aid understanding the basics of what this data is and how we use it.

The current threat of climate change is so complicated that even those who agree on the relative severity of the situation are continually working on producing data that will help frame the situation and guide actions within and between nations. One of the many complicated aspects of setting environmental data targets is how embedded our social needs and outputs are tied to our impacts on the planet.

While PM is present in many places, it only takes low concentrations to start having health impacts. No threshold has been identified below which no damage to health is observed, it’s more a case of volume and exposure that determines how long it will take for the particulate pollution to affect your health.