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by Deepak Subedi | 09-01-2019 20:41
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A carbon footprint is historically defined as the total emissions caused by an individual, event, organization, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent. In most cases, the total carbon footprint cannot be exactly calculated because of inadequate knowledge of and data about the complex interactions between contributing processes, including the influence of natural processes that store or release carbon dioxide. For this reason, Wright, Kemp, and Williams, have suggested to define the carbon footprint as: A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions of a defined population, system or activity, considering all relevant sources, sinks and storage within the spatial and temporal boundary of the population, system or activity of interest. Calculated as carbon dioxide equivalent using the relevant 100-year global warming potential. The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words: 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. (CO2 is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide). When you warm 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. Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which was induced by your activities in a given time frame. Usually a carbon footprint is calculated for the time period of a year. The best way is to calculate the carbon dioxide emissions based on the fuel consumption. In the next step you can add the CO2 emission to your carbon footprint. Below is a table for the most common used fuels:
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14 Comments
Greetings Deepak
I hope you are doing well!
Thank you so much for this report!
Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
Hema
Posted 22-03-2020 11:02
Greetings deepak
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report.
I hope to read more from you.
Keep up with great works
Green cheers
Regards
Basanta
Posted 16-03-2020 04:11
Yes Sachin
I am happy you get some information :)
Posted 05-02-2019 14:15
So basically carbon footprint is measure of co2 emission .
A new article for me. Happy to read about carboon footprint. :) :)
Posted 05-02-2019 11:56
Hello
Joon Ho Mentor, Namaste
Hope you are absolutely happy and healthy
I am very happy that your country and your citizen are doing very much in reducing carbon emission,
Yes mentor i also hope this report may help other ambassadors to learn more about carbon mission
Thanks for your comments.
Posted 14-01-2019 20:58
Hello Gyeongrin mentor, Namaste
I hope you are fine and happy there
Yes calculating footprint will help in reducing carbon emission of individual people,
Thank You for your comments.
Thank You for your comments in my every report and encouraging me to write new new report by searching and studying.
Posted 14-01-2019 20:54
Hello Deepak, my country partially implements policy to mark carbon footprint in certain types of products but not all the products. When I take a short look before I grab something to buy, I just compare how much it does cost and have better quality, apart from carbon footprint and cover matter element type. But when I do get to compare them by spending more time, I soon find out that it is never expensive to use more money on products emitting less carbon dioxide as listed in carbon footprint mark.
Likewise, index in your report may help other regional ambassadors to compare and count what certain types of products are non-environmental products or not.
Thanks for your report!
Posted 13-01-2019 23:29
Hello Deepak
The calculation of carbon dioxide being emitted could be calculated by the quantitive relationship derived from the combustion equation and the table makes it easier to see how much carbon is being emitted into air depending on the fuel type.
As the report also says, now we do have carbon footprints and it would be nice if more people would actually care to compare the footprints before consuming it.
Thanks for the report!
Posted 13-01-2019 00:27
Hello Israel
I hope you are fine and healthy
Yes brother this data show how much we are emitting carbon, i hope you learned something about carbon footprint from this report.
Thank You for your comments.
Posted 11-01-2019 23:32
Deepak,
From the data, we can see some fuel that need to be reduced in use because of their high CO2 generation.
Thank that information on carbon footprint
Posted 10-01-2019 19:46
Hello Kushal
Hope you are fine
Yes brother we must reduce our carbon foot print and aid in environment conservation
Thank You for your comments.
Posted 10-01-2019 13:14
Hello Rosa, Namaste
Yes carbon footprint of each individual is increasing day by day and so of country. We must reduce our personal carbon footprint as we are aware of environment conservation.
Thank You For your comments
Posted 10-01-2019 13:10
Thank you for your report Deepak dai.
We must realize our carbon print and work accordingly to reduce our carbon foot print. In the recent year, with the modernization and more dependency on non renewable resources has increased our carbon print.
We know how bigger loss we have been creating to the environemntal which has resulted in great loss to us and other living creatures of earth.
We must be responsible and act to reduce our carbon print.
Keep writing great report dai :) :)
Green cheers
Posted 10-01-2019 02:22
Hey there Deepak!
The carbon footprint of many nations has increased over the last decade. And one thing we need is to atleast know what are the factors that has led to Earth's warming.
Thank you for informing us of the Carbon Print topic!
Stay blessed
Rosa.
Posted 10-01-2019 00:36