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

    Ich benötige so etwas nicht. Klingt nach Milchmädchenrechnung. Die Kategorie sagt beispielsweise überhaupt nichts drüber aus, wie nachhaltig ein Produkt hergestellt wurde. Bunq soll sich bitte auf Banking konzentrieren. Bäume pflanzen Gärtner und für Social Media gibt es viele APPs. Meine Daten sollen nicht in irgendwelchen Landkarten, CO2 Übersichten usw. genutzt werden. Bunq, bitte konzentriere Dich auf Banking. Es gibt viele Fehler die behoben werde müssen, ein vernünftiges Adressbuch fehlt. Das sollte die Priorität sein. Um Co2 und um Freunde kümmern wir uns in anderen APPs

      @DanielL#237354 Ich stimme dir bei jedem deiner Sätze 100% zu 👍🏻 @Bunq: Macht meinetwegen eine extra App für das ganze Baum- und Social Media Zeugs. Aber konzentriert euch in dieser App wieder komplett aufs Banking.

        @DanielL#237354 Genau so und nicht anders, danke!

          2 months later

          Thanks for the replies. I agree wholeheartedly that Bunq should concentrate on improving their app and imagined that this idea would expressed as an independent app pulling data from the Bunq api.

          As far as I am aware, there is no app which gives you a snapshot of your co2/eco footprint as you spend. There are plentiy of footprint calculators, some better than others, but none of them super accurate. None of them take into account how sustainable a particular product was produced, using only broad brush categories. The idea of most of these calculators is to inform, to make the general public more sensitive to the fact that all consumption has an impact, some actions, (purchases), more than others.

          The app I have in mind would produce no better an output than a footprint calculator and perhaps that's where I'll go with this idea.

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