HACKER Q&A
📣 MichaelMoser123

Did working from home bring less CO2 emission?


Also fewer people are travelling by plane, do we know how to quantify the change in greenhouse gas emission? What should be the effect, if there is a reduction?

  👤 elevanation Accepted Answer ✓
For 2020, yes, but not by much. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00090-3

There are also other factors involved: https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2021/05/03/why-covid-didnt-hav...

👤 softwaredoug
WFH probably, but it's probably countered by parents needing to drive their kids to school during the pandemic
👤 sh4un
There would be less climate change if it wasn't so profitable.