The total greenhouse gas (GG) emissions from everyday economic and human activities are represented by the carbon footprint. It starts with what each person does daily. Understanding a project's carbon footprint, which is measured in tonnes of CO2 emissions, is essential when it comes to acting and launching projects to reduce the activity's carbon footprint to the lowest possible level.
What does a carbon footprint mean?
Carbon dioxide has been the most pervasive and substantial cause of global warming since 1990. The quantity of greenhouse gases left behind by human activities is called the "carbon footprint." This environmental indicator examines both direct and indirect emissions of a variety of chemicals, such as sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), methane (CH4) (CO2).
According to the Global Footprint Network, the carbon footprint has kept growing. Since 1961, it has increased eleven times and now accounts for 60% of all environmental damage caused by human activity. The levels of atmospheric CO2 at this time are equivalent to those from more than three million years ago when the earth's surface temperature was around three degrees Celsius higher and sea levels were 10 to 20 metres higher than they are now.
Businesses' Carbon Footprints
Businesses create greenhouse gases through manufacturing, transportation, and energy use, just like people do. The corporate footprint calculates all these emissions and their breadth, regardless of whether a company's greenhouse gas emissions are direct and directly under its control.
How? Businesses can often reduce or offset their carbon emissions in this aspect. Companies can achieve this, among other things, by enhancing their energy efficiency, utilising solely 100% renewable energy, starting awareness campaigns, supporting environmental causes, investing in green projects, paying green taxes, and buying tonnes of CO2 on the global emissions market.
A Product's Carbon Footprint
Pollution is produced while obtaining raw materials, their processing, manufacture, and distribution, and their use and transformation into waste that is either recycled, reused, or disposed of in a landfill. Consumer goods and services continue to emit greenhouse gases before, during, and beyond their valid lifetimes. Because of factors like transportation, energy use, waste creation, and others, events like concerts, plays, or sporting tournaments, among others, have a significant carbon footprint.
Agile Advisors' Consulting Services for Carbon Footprint
As a carbon footprint consultancy in India, the first step in mitigating climate change is to identify your influence, which the carbon footprint enables you to do.
With the growing concern over the effects of climate change and the part carbon emissions play as a contributing factor, Agile Advisors, a carbon footprint consultancy, is working on "carbon footprint" projects to quantify their contributions to the global warming challenge.
As a carbon footprint consultant in India, Agile Advisors provides Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and information gathering, computing, and analysis services to measure the carbon footprint in the company's production and operation and present strategies for reducing carbon emissions.
Customers of Agile Advisors have access to carbon footprint consultancy services to assist them in lowering carbon emissions as they strive to achieve net zero carbon emissions.
Analyzing one's carbon footprint using the carbon register protocol definitions is feasible. Even though the scope of these criteria varies, we frequently advocate concentrating more on calculating only direct emissions from purchased energy and less on emissions through the supplier chain. On the other side, there are methods for monitoring total emissions across the supply chain that can be used to assess the procedures for environmental life-cycle assessments. Even when estimates techniques are meticulously designed, past experiences reveal that carbon emissions to generate goods and services are often greatly underestimated.