Research on Investigation and Countermeasure of Low Carbon Consumption of College Students

Abstract

The most important influencing factor of global greenhouse effect is the excessive carbon dioxide emissions, and one of the important ways to affect carbon emissions is people’s daily life. College students are a special group. This paper takes the college students in Changqing university town of Jinan as an example to investigate their cognition and action on low carbon consumption at the present stage, hoping to take this as a breakthrough and encourage the whole community to actively participate in the activities of low carbon consumption. The results show that the status quo of College Students’ low carbon consumption is related to their gender, family address, educational background and other basic factors, low carbon consumption behavior is influenced by low carbon consumption awareness, social responsibility awareness and personal consumption concept, college students’ consumption is tending to low carbon nowadays, but there are obstacles to carry out low carbon consumption in an all-round way. Therefore, from the perspective of the government, universities and college students themselves, this paper puts forward the relevant countermeasures to promote low carbon consumption behavior.