First and foremost, I was pretty shocked by the carbon emissions of my traveling habits. Indeed, it was the highest carbon emissions among all of the categories. I did not realize the impact of my habits everyday. Surely, plane was an obvious factor of the carbon emissions. As it is for car rides; even though I live nearby my school; thank to this test, I do realize the great impacts. It made me understand that I have to change my traveling habits.

Furthermore, as far as I'm concerned, at an individual level, I try to consume less but better. Before, I had a nasty habit to consume a lot, and what I consumed was left into my closet. Today, I try to buy good quality products and to reduce my buyings, consume local products in order to reduce my consumption of imported products.

Besides, I also try to consume less meat, pork. I can see the results of these new consumption habits during the test, because it was the category with the lowest carbon emissions among all of them.

• ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES :

In French Polynesia, a great problem remains in our consumption. Indeed, people tend to overconsume things that they don't need, leading our environment spoilt.

Therefore, I try to be part of a engaged generation that tries to respect, and to create a sustainable world for the future generations.

We have the chance in our islands to have outstanding landscapes, beaches and a verdant nature. And yet, our environment is endangered by our habits. Indeed, people do not sort their wastes and even dump them into the nature. Therefore, our fauna and flora are impacted by a very alarming pollution.

In addition, I'm part of an association in my school, therefore I participate in environmental actions such as cleaning beaches. These actions are made in order to promote change in the way that we perceive the beauty of our island. I was very shocked to see the wastes dumped on beaches, electronic devices left beside the rode, etc. Our association was shown on TV, so that we could convey the issue that we face in today's society.

Thus, the real issue today is our own responsibility in the way that we consume. We have to change so that our islands, nature and resources can be preserved.

What truly stood out to me in my carbon footprint results was not what I expected. I would've never thought my CO2 emissions were so high, it really made me feel guilty about my consumption. My worst habits are the following: the consumption at home and the worst of all, the air-planes.
High CO2 emissions intensify global warming by strengthening the greenhouse effect, leading to rising temperatures, melting ice caps, and more frequent extreme weather events. They also harm ecosystems and human health, causing biodiversity loss, air pollution, and threatening food security.
This is the reason why even if I live in Tahiti without my parents and I go to France to see them and my family I will consider the possibility to never live in Tahiti ever again even if I love it because If I need to see my family then I would need to pollute. Also changing my home habits are not that hard so then I could bring a lot down my emissions.
Therefore, I will try to change my habits so then it will have a impact at my scale to help the environment and as of now I am a part of the problem and I know that we have to protect our planet because we have only one. Reducing our CO2 emission and our consumption is the only solution to save our planet.