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Your Day-to-Day Carbon Footprint: Part of the Solution or the Problem?
1. Seniors’ Green Living Forum & Fair
April 20, 2011
Workshop 4
Your Day-to-Day Carbon Footprint:
Part of the Solution or the Problem?
Presented by
Joannes Paulus Hernandez, RN
(Volunteer)
2. I declare that my involvement to P.O.I.N.T. is voluntary and a
personal endeavor to develop leadership in the community.
I am expressing myself through an advocacy for change in
the context of social responsibility arising from my profession
as a registered nurse in order to promote holistic health.
In spite of globalization, public health is not isolated from the
effects of environmental degradation. Our interaction and
impact to the environment is given emphasis.
Generally, all information is presented for increasing public
awareness on green living philosophy.
Disclosure
3. 1. To gain information on the environmental
impact and sources of carbon dioxide
emissions
2. To learn how to describe one’s personal
carbon footprint
3. To utilize one’s carbon footprint to make
practical solutions at home
Objectives
4. 1. Keywords definition
2. The carbon cycle
3. Greenhouse gases and effects
4. Sources of carbon emissions
5. Carbon footprint calculators
Outline
5. 1. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) = gases (i.e., water vapor, carbon dioxide,
methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone) in the atmosphere that can absorb
and emit heat (infrared radiation)
2. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) = largest GHG emission: approximately 740 billion
tons; 4th most abundant gas in the atmosphere (Saini, 2011)
3. Carbon footprint = total amount of CO2 produced to directly and
indirectly support human activities
4. Carbon footprint calculation = a.k.a. “Carbon Inventory”
“Greenhouse Gas Inventory, ” “Climate Change Footprint”
5. Carbon Offsetting = an act that aims to remove a certain amount of
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to compensate for the same
amount of carbon dioxide that someone or something has added to the
atmosphere
6. Carbon Neutrality = achieving net zero carbon emissions into the
atmosphere; employing a technique to absorb carbon dioxide so it is not
emitted
Keywords
6. Human interference has caused imbalance in
the cycle
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
has reached to a level that can not be easily
cycled
The consequences are:
1. climate change
2. global warming
Source: Saini, K. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.environmentabout.com/648/what-is-carbon-cycle-
and-how-it-works
Salient Points
Source:
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/co2_cycle.html
Living organisms exhale carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere
approximately 50 billion tons
every year (Saini, 2011).
Bodies of water hold
approximately 36,000
billion tons of carbon
(Saini, 2011).
7. Greenhouse Gases
Source: http://www.e2singapore.gov.sg/climate-change-energy-efficiency.html
• Carbon dioxide, CO2
• Methane, CH4
• Nitrous Oxide, N2O
• Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and
Chlorofuorocarbons (CFCs) (covers 13
chemicals)
• Perfluorocarbons, PFCs (covers 7 chemicals)
• Sulfur Hexafluoride, SF6
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
8. Greenhouse Gas Global Warming Potential
Carbon Dioxide, CO2 1.0
Methane, CH4 21
Nitrous oxide, N2O 310
HFC 134a 1,300
Sulfur hexafluoride 23,900
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
9. GHG
Emissions
(Metric Tons)
Global
Warming
Potential
Metric Tons
CO2-e
Carbon Dioxide 10,000 1 10,000
Methane 500 21 10,500
HFC 134a 1.0 1,300 1,300
Sulfur
hexafluoride
0.06 23,900 1,434
Total 23,234
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
10. Carbon Footprint
Scope 1:
Direct
Emissions
Scope 2:
Indirect
Emissions
(Purchased energy)
Scope 3:
Other
Indirect
Emissions
Sources of CO2 emissions
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
11. Rank Country Annual CO2 emission
(tons per capita)
1 Australia 20.6
2 USA 19.8
3 Canada 18.8
4 Netherlands ----
5 Saudi Arabia ----
Source: http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/leaders-in-
total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-australians-the-worlds-worst-
polluters/
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
12. • Combustion sources
• Site owned vehicles
• On site electrical
generation
• CFC and HFC losses from
refrigeration equipment
• Sulfur hexafluoride losses
from electrical equipment
Scope 1: Direct Emissions
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
13. • Emissions from consumption of
purchased utilities:
– Typically electricity
– Could be steam or high
temperature hot water
– Could be negative—electricity from
landfill gas
Scope 2: Indirect Emissions –
Purchased Energy
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
14. • Transportation of purchased
material or goods
• Employee business travel
• Employee commuting
impacts
• Outsourced work
• Emissions from finished
products
• Transportation of waste
• Vegetation & Trees
Note: Scope 3 can be higher than Scope 1 and 2.
Scope 3: Other Indirect Emissions
Source:
http://www.toonpool.com/user/589/files/organic_
548015.jpg
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
15. Carbon Footprint
Scope 1:
Direct
Emissions
Scope 2:
Indirect
Emissions
(Purchased energy)
Scope 3:
Other
Indirect
Emissions
Carbon Footprint – 3 Scopes
Carbon footprint calculations must include at least Scope 1 and 2 GHG
emissions.
Source: O’Konsk, P. (2009). Carbon footprint and the new facilities vocabulary. Retrieved from
http://fimsinfo.doe.gov/Workshop/2009/O'Konski_Carbon_Footprint.ppt.
16. Day-to-day activities:
1. Home energy
2. Food & Diet
3. Transport
4. Travel
5. Recycling & Waste
Carbon footprint calculator
Source:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_na7EnjcsbIw/TO02HMKWOeI/AAAAAAAA
AFs/anLniEh82nY/s1600/everyday+activities+1.JPG
Lets calculate. Get ready with your pencils!
27. Seniors’ Green Living Forum & Fair
April 20, 2011
Workshop 4
Your Day-to-Day Carbon Footprint:
Part of the Solution or the Problem?
Presented by
Joannes Paulus Hernandez, RN
(Volunteer)
Thank you!