6.2.3 Carbon footprints for global flows
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- How global interactions create environmental risks for particular places and people
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Environmental impacts of global flows at varying scales: carbon footprints for global flows of food, goods and people
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge and understanding of carbon footprints as a measure of environmental impact.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the varying carbon footprints for the global flows of food, good and people.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise
Promises to cut emissions and use more fuel-efficient planes fail to stop rise, with Ryanair’s carbon footprint 50% up on 2019
The Guardian · 8 May 2026
Key terms
- Carbon footprint
- A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.
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Review
- Analyse the environmental consequences of global flows of food and manufactured goods at varying scales. [12]
- The environmental impacts of globalisation affect all places equally. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [16]