{"id":78311,"date":"2025-05-14T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&p=78311"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:19:05","slug":"the-gender-gap-in-carbon-footprints-determinants-and-implications","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/the-gender-gap-in-carbon-footprints-determinants-and-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"The gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Understanding the distribution of carbon footprints across population groups is crucial for designing fair and acceptable climate policies. To date, gender has remained an underexplored factor in carbon footprints, despite its well-documented influence on consumption and travel choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper uses detailed data on consumption patterns from France to quantify the gender gap in carbon footprints related to food and transport and investigate its underlying drivers. The authors show that women emit 26% less carbon than men in these two sectors, which together account for half of the average individual carbon footprint. Socioeconomic factors, biological differences and gender differences in distances travelled explain part of the gap, but up to 38% remains unexplained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key points for decision-makers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n