REVIEW OF CARBON FOOTPRINT STRATEGIES

Year 2024, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 128 - 148, 31.12.2024

Kemal Atmaca , Ayşe Yeter Günal

Abstract

The knowledge of carbon footprint is essential to discussions about sustainability and environmental concern. The need for industries, governments, and individuals to estimate and lesser their carbon footprints is growing on account of the deteriorating effects of climate change. This page proposals a thorough summary of current studies on the idea of carbon footprints, their effects on the environment, gauging techniques, and measures for dropping them. A carbon footprint is an vital pointer that shows the quantity of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gas releases that come from normal human actions. As the properties of climate change and global warming become further seeming, there is growing demand on persons, businesses, and governments to identify and decrease their carbon footprints. Carbon footprints are inclined by a number of variables, including waste managing, transportation, food intake, and energy usage. Examined are remedies such spherical economy ideologies, maintainable transportation, energy productivity, and the consumption of renewable energy. To sum up, dropping carbon footprints is critical to the fight against climate change. Working organized at the institutional, social, and individual levels is important to accomplishing a sustainable future.

Keywords

Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, Energy

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