New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker
One of several new programs to monitor your spending habits
The monitoring of personal behavior by banks will take another step forward as Canadian credit union Vancity launches a new credit card technology to report users’ carbon emissions.
On Oct. 19, Vancity announced that it will be “the first financial institution in Canada to offer its individual and business members a way to estimate the CO2 emissions that come from their purchases.”
Vancity said its carbon counter, which is attached to Visa credit cards, was developed with ecolytiq, one of Europe’s leading ‘climate engagement technology companies’.
This will be the first carbon counter program for Visa holders.
Mastercard already provides a CO2 emissions-tracking card, developed with technology from Swedish company Doconomy.
The Visa credit card technology developed by ecolytiq also provides “education and behavioral nudging” so that card users are not only informed about the CO2 emissions of their buying activity but also told how to reduce them.
See more here legitgov.org
Header image: Daily Hive
Editor’s note: perhaps someone needs to know how many burgers you eat, or when you use a public toilet, to ensure you are always mindful of saving the planet. Unbelievable.
Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Defend The Scientific Method
PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company 
incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX.
Trackback from your site.
Tom
| #
Well, I guess it’s back to cash and checks and other non-visa/mastercard payment methods.
Reply
Tom O
| #
Just another process to train the sheep(goy) to do what is expected of them. Sigh. Can you still remember those days when we were allowed to be “people” and could do what we thought was right? Hard to believe those times, when we had to struggle with a lot of things to get ahead, would turn out to be the best days of our lives, with the worst days just over the horizon.
Reply
VOWG
| #
So, you use your visa or mastercard to get cash.
Reply
VOWG
| #
8 billion people all have one thing in common, they exhale CO2. CO2 is not a climate driver or a pollutant. Every story that discusses CO2 should have that qualifier attached.
Reply