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‘‘
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‘Carbon footprint’ has become a widely used term and concept in the public debate on
responsibility and abatement action against the threat of global climate change. It had a
tremendous increase in public appearance over the last few months and years and is now a
buzzword widely used across the media, the government and in the business world. There are
many definitions of carbon foot printing. “The carbon footprint is the amount of carbon
dioxide emitted due to your daily activities – from washing a load of laundry to driving a
carload of kids to school." BP (2007)."A carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of
carbon dioxide emitted through the combustion of fossil fuels. In the case of a business
organization, it is the amount of CO2 emitted either directly or indirectly as a result of its
everyday operations. It also might reflect the fossil energy represented in a product or
commodity reaching market." Grub & Ellis (2007).A technique for identifying and measuring
the individual greenhouse gas emissions from each activity within a supply chain process step
and the framework for attributing these to each output product (we [The Carbon Trust] will
refer to this as the product’s ‘carbon footprint’)." (Carbon Trust 2007, p.4)" The carbon
footprint is a measure of the exclusive total amount of carbon dioxide emissions that is
directly and indirectly caused by an activity or is accumulated over the life stages of a
product." The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support
human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). When you
drive a car, the engine burns fuel which creates a certain amount of CO2, depending on its
fuel consumption and the driving distance. When you heat your house with oil, gas or coal,
then you also generate CO2. Even if you heat your house with electricity, the generation of
the electrical power may also have emitted a certain amount of CO2. When you buy food and
goods, the production of the food and goods also emitted some quantities of CO2. Carbon
footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases—primarily carbon dioxide—released into the
atmosphere by a particular human activity. A carbon footprint can be a broad measure or be
applied to the actions of an individual, a family, an event, an organization, or even an entire
nation. It is usually measured as tons of CO 2 emitted per year, a number that can be
supplemented by tons of CO2-equivalent gases, including methane, nitrous oxide, and other
greenhouse gas. We can reduce emission of carbon at Individual level by using products
which are eco-friendly or having less impact to environment.it is a responsibility of an
individual to protect environment at his or her level. Modern era is mainly dominated by
electrical appliances and people prefer these products over other sources of energy, these
electrical appliances are largest contributors of carbon foot print. General awareness among
the masses is one of the important tool to reduce the carbon emission by awaring the people
about the hazards caused by carbon emission. Your “carbon footprint” is a measure of the
impact your activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) produced through the
burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions produced in tonnes.
Global experts call for a target limit of approximately 2 tonnes per person per year. Currently,
the global average is 4 tonnes per person, with wide variation between countries.
Approximate national average for the United States of America is 20, United Kingdom 9,
China 3, and India 1.2. Individual activities are estimated to contribute around 45% of your
“footprint”. The rest is your “allocation” of system-generated emissions related to services
provided to you or on your behalf. While both system-level and individual actions will be
required to help reach agreed targets, there is much everyone can do to reduce their own
carbon footprints. Carbon emissions from anthropogenic activities and their impact on
climate change are one of the main challenges for achieving environmental sustainability.
The repercussions of human-induced climate change are unevenly distributed around the
globe and continue to increase. Adverse health conditions associated with climate change
include an increased prevalence of infectious diseases, heat related disorders, mental health
disorders, air pollution, and respiratory diseases. Although we all contribute to this
development, as research scholars we also have the privileged duty to protect global human
health. Therefore, we should make every effort to cut down our own carbon footprint and
adopt a more sustainable lifestyle. Carbon footprint, as an environmental sustainability
indicator, has been frequently studied to quantify the environmental performance of a
product, individual, company, city, or country, using environmental life-cycle assessment
(LCA). Different LCA approaches have been developed to assess the environmental impacts
of goods and services throughout their whole life cycle—that is from resource extraction,
production, use and disposal—or cradle to grave.
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Conclusion
Carbon foot printing or carbon emission is a cause of concern. Carbon emission are rising on
alarming rate and are playing in role in deteriorating the environment standard of our
universe. Growing industries and technology development contribute much more towards the
carbon emission as compared to other areas. World is looking for less emission of carbon
dioxide by developing many eco-friendly technologies. It is a responsibility of every
individual to conserve nature by using eco-friendly technologies and use alternative sources
of energy. Government of nation should look after the carbon emission per year and make
such laws which help us in saving our environment and should take strict action against the
people who violate these laws related to carbon emission.