Why should you calculate your carbon footprint?What to consider when calculating your carbon footprint Every company that generates any amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has a calculable carbon footprint. And if you’re committed to minimizing your impact on the environment, you must accoun...
“So, as part of our organisation’s GHG emissions report, we must use electricity emissions factors to calculate our total electricity emissions.” Brian is the Head of Sustainability at a manufacturing facility. Right now, he’s explaining how to calculate electricity emissions to the larger ...
The above equation considers the residual waste (material that remains after the partial decomposition of waste during anaerobic digestion process at the SWDS). The residual waste materials also have capacity to undergo anaerobic digestion again and to generate methane. Therefore, the GHG emission from...
This greater attention has revealed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with materials used in buildings and construction account for 28 percent of building sector emissions and 11 percent of global GHG emissions.2 Are we able to dive deeper into these numbers to find ways to reduce a...
GHG emissions are not measured just by monitoring concentration or flow rate. Much like financial accounting standards, methodologies have been developed that allow companies to measure the climate impact of their business activities. The most widely accepted ways of measuring GHG have been developed by...
Why Calculate Embodied Carbon in the Early Stages of a Project? Annually, the embodied carbon of building structure, substructure, and enclosures are responsible for 11% of global GHG emissions and 28% of global building sector emissions. Between 39%-80% of a building’s totalCarbonFootprint is...
According to Sir Isaac Newton, the force of an entity equals its mass, multiplied by acceleration. This basic principle is what is used to calculate load force, which is the force that opposes that entity. Any time one does work, such as lifting asource=SFGHG&utmmedium=referral&utm_campaig...
The life-cycle model sizes the aircraft based on the flight distance and year of construction (which conditions improvement factors to apply). Details are given in Aircraft. The approach used to calculate in-flight emissions is described in Surface and flight emissions. The approach used to calcul...
To increase external recognition, organizations could calculate and disclose their overall societal impact on sustainability, going beyond environmental considerations by explaining how their decarbonization efforts benefit local communities, diversity, and inclusion....
We utilized KH coder, an open-source software for text mining, to calculate the frequency of keyword appearances in the aforementioned documents. Keywords were lemmatized to the root term to identify all related words. For instance, “transport*” captures mentions of “transport” “transportation...