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Item Greenhouse Price amount consumed (in $, kg, kWh, km, etc) duration = Your emissions
per year
Average Australian

Food
Beef products 8.9 per $ AUS$ per year kg 1450 kg
Dairy and other meat products 2.6 per $ AUS$ per year kg 800 kg
Fruit and vegetables 1.4 per $ AUS$ per year kg 230 kg
Bread, flour and cereals 1.5 per $ AUS$ per year kg 340 kg
Margarine, oils and fats 2.0 per $ AUS$ per year kg 55 kg
Sugar, confectionary and all other food items 1.8 per $ AUS$ per year kg 800 kg
Beverages 0.8 per $ AUS$ per year kg 230 kg
Meals out 1.4 per $ AUS$ per year kg 1000 kg
Organic waste to garbage bin (landfill) 1.6 per kg kg per year kg 80 kg

Household Electricity and Fuels
Electricity (conventional) 1.23 per kWh kWh per year kg 3100 kg
Electricity (renewable energy) 0.10 per kWh kWh per year kg  
Natural gas 0.07 per MJ MJ per year kg 460 kg

Transport (other than business)
Bicycle 0.1 per km km per year kg 5 kg
Bus and coach 0.2 per passenger-km
passenger-km
per year kg 250 kg
Train 0.2 per passenger-km
passenger-km
per year kg 150 kg
International Air 0.3 per passenger-km
passenger-km
per year kg 200 kg
Domestic Air 0.8 per passenger-km
passenger-km
per year kg 250 kg
Private car (divide by number of passengers to obtain your km-share) 0.48 per vehicle-km
vehicle-km
per year kg 2700 kg

Goods (other than second-hand) and Services
Goods excl. food (clothing, footwear, books, paper, magazines, HiFi, TV, video, recreational goods, cars and other vehicles, household appliances, household chemicals, furnishings, construction materials, etc)    
  1.5 per $ AUS$ per year kg 3300 kg
Services excluding transport (rent, mortgage, phone, mail, council rates, banking, insurance, sporting events, movies, hotel, personal services, repairs, etc)    
  0.7 per $ AUS$ per year kg 7400 kg
Growing trees you planted -15.0 per tree trees per year kg  
 

Government Administration and Defence 6100 kg
Net uptake by our common forests and soils -4300 kg
Your total: kg
Average Australian 24,600 kg
Average World Citizen 7,000 kg
Average person in India 1,000 kg
Globally equitable and environmentally sustainable emissions level: 3,500 kg
kilo grams per year from sustainable kg
 
Please note that the estimates given in the table are averages over many different products and producers and thus only indicative for the type of consumption. Nevertheless, the overall total will in general be quite accurate.