myclimate: myclimate Carbon Tracker

The jet-setting lifestyle of influencers and their excessive air travel cause massive climate-damaging emissions. A large-scale climate protection campaign by the NGO myclimate is now publicly confronting these celebrities – on their own channels. Many influencers use location markers on Instagram to share their trips. In collaboration between Jung von Matt HAVEL and the developers from Championship Records, the 'myclimate Carbon Tracker' was created. This intelligent bot analyses location markers in social media posts from over 1000 influencers and celebrities. Based on the distance between two posts with location markers, it identifies flights and calculates the resulting emissions. Based on this, the bot generates a personalised comment, reminding them of alternative travel options and donations for climate projects. For particularly prominent frequent flyers, completely individual comments are written. At the same time, the travel activities are included in the first influencer CO2 ranking at carbontracker.myclimate.org. myclimate aims to raise awareness of climate-damaging travel behaviour, offer alternatives, and call for responsibility for one's own emissions. The initiative is accompanied by a campaign on social media, which, not without irony, asks people to donate for the influencers if they fail to fulfil their responsibility.