Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Households in Mexico City

Ignacio Cesar Cruz, El Colegio de México

Climate change is a phenomenon being studied from various perspectives, most of them from a quantitative point of view and at an aggregate level. The most common demographic aspect in these studies has to do with the generation of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) for large population groups. However, CO2 emissions are also linked to social conditions of people and practices that surround their daily life. In Mexico, the main problem for the study of these dimensions is the lack of information sources that meet this level of disaggregation. However, we can use information on household expenditures available in our country as a proxy. In that sense, the central idea of this proposal is to compare the volume of CO2 emissions of households in Mexico City, grouped according to their income and size.