Is there someone out there interested in developing an app to calculate the carbon impact of personal consumption via Bunq?
Given that Bunq knows very well what category our spending falls into and given that all carbon calculators essentially translate spending type into tonnes of CO2, it would seem a reasonable endeavour to me. For example, spending on grocery generates a figure in CO2, as does buying a flight ticket and although there would have to be some manual input for such an app to work, (where is that flight you bought going to? do you eat meat?), once the essentials were in place, most should be automated. I am not suggesting the result would generate anything other than a broad idea of where a user might be in their impact but I am suggesting it could go a long way towards generating awareness.
I am not a programmer but I have been involved in program design, (a very long time ago...), and I have also studied energy in the environment. I would be prepared to do the grunt work in setting up the relationship between spending type and CO2 but have zero experience writing code.
Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree but I would much rather have something like this than available to me than a green-wash tree planting program.
Thanks for listening,
NIck
