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Understanding Carbon Footprint
Explain what it means, how it's calculated, and why it's important for individuals and businesses to understand and reduce their carbon footprint
Last edited 321 days ago by Yashi Gupta.
Short Answer
It’s how much you personally contribute to climate change. Your personal contribution is a function of how much fossil fuel energy you use, thus how much greenhouse gases (GHG) you emit. ()
What is the carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases are generated by our actions.
Wondering what’s your carbon footprint?
Carbon Footprint numbers
Region
Carbon Footprint/Year
Carbon Footprint/Year as progress
Ideal Global average
2
000
20Global average
4
000
40India
1.6
000
16United States
16
000
100There are no rows in this table
Ideal global carbon footprint is 2 tons/year
The average carbon footprint of an Indian is . It’s lower than the global average of 4 tons/year.
To prevent a 2-degree-celsius rise in global temperatures, our average global carbon footprint/year needs to drop to below 2 tons by
.
How is the carbon footprint calculated?
Why is it important to understand how to reduce carbon footprint?
For businesses
For individuals
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