January 2025
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The carbon footprint (CF) is a crucial metric used to evaluate the collective influence of governments, companies, and entities on climate change. Unlike traditional emissions accounting, which mostly focuses on emissions from local industrial activity, the CF include the emissions produced via use throughout universal supply networks for product and facilities. There has been a significant surge in interest in using CF assessment for municipalities. The reason for this is because municipalities play a substantial role in generating global carbon emissions, yet there is insufficient data available to adequately track their climate commitments. By integrating consumer surveys done at the household level with a comprehensive global supply chain database, it is possible to accurately quantify carbon footprints at both the district and household level in a spatially-detailed way. Thus far, our research has revealed previously undisclosed discrepancies in the carbon footprints of consumers in affluent countries. In this study, the carbon footprints of families in 12 Rajasthani districts are analysed and compared. Our estimations are derived from micro consumption data collected from 112 households. We analyse the variations in carbon footprints according to demographic, cultural, and economic variables. We establish that it is possible to simultaneously achieve the total eradication of extreme poverty in Rajasthan while implementing assertive strategies to address climate change. However, our research shows that in Rajasthan, efforts to reduce carbon footprint should prioritise high-expenditure families, since they are accountable for around 7 times the quantity of carbon emissions compared to low-expenditure households (who have a daily consumption of Rs. 192). The considerable disparities in carbon footprints among inhabitants of Rajasthan highlight the need of discerning individual accountability for climate change in both domestic and international climate policy.