Aging Could Influence Climate Change: Individual Carbon Dioxide Emissions Decline in Old Age

Age distribution of expenditures on energy-intensive goods (average values for U.S. resident per capita and per year in U.S. dollars). (Credit: © MPIDR, Emilio Zagheni)

From the 7 November Science Daily article

New demographic analysis reveals that the CO₂ emissions of the average American increase until around the age of 65, and then start to decrease. For the United States this means that, although the aging of the population will lead to a slight overall rise in CO₂emissions over the next four decades, the long-term trends indicate that increasing life expectancy will result in a reduction in emissions.

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