This document provides information on calculating carbon footprint. It defines carbon footprint as the total greenhouse gases generated by an entity in a year, measured in tons of CO2. It lists the primary and other greenhouse gases, and explains how human activities like agriculture, waste, energy use, and biomass burning emit these gases. The document then provides detailed steps to calculate a household's carbon footprint based on electricity usage, fuel consumption for transport, and LPG used for cooking. It stresses the importance of tracking personal carbon footprint to understand one's impact on global warming and provides a checklist for common ways to reduce carbon footprint through daily habits and actions.

1. CALCULATION
OF
CARBON FOOT PRINT

2. What is carbon foot print?

3. A Carbon foot print is basically the
total amount of Green House Gases
(GHG) that are generated by a person
or other entity in a year.
It is calculated in tons of CO2

4. GREEN HOUSE GASES
Green House Gases (GHG) are
the gases in the atmosphere
that produce “Green House
Effect” and contribute to
Global warming and
Climate Change.

5. GREEN HOUSE GASES
PRIMARY GAS:
CO2
OTHER GASES:
Methane, Nitrous oxide
other
fluorinated gases etc.
Distribution of gases in
the
atmosphere

6. GREEN HOUSE EFFECT
GREEN HOUSE GLOBAL WARMING

7. How the GHG emissions take place by human
activities?
• Agricultural activities, Waste management, Energy
use, and biomass burning results in emission of
CH4
• Fertilizer use in agriculture, Fossil fuel combustion
results in emission of N2O
• Industrial processes, refrigeration, use of variety of
consumer products results in emission of
Fluorinated gases

8. NEED OF CALCULATING CARBON FOOT PRINT
The carbon foot print is a very important way
to understand the impact of person’s
behaviour on global warming.
Do you want to stop global warming?
Then you keep the track of your personal
carbon foot print

9. TASK-1
Calculate your house hold
carbon foot print.

10. MAJOR AREAS
1.ELECTRICITY
2.FUEL (TRANSPORT)
3.COOKING (LPG)

11. Step-1
Electricity
Take your current bill and note the number of units (KWH)
consumed.
Multiply with 12 (one year)
Divide the value with the number of your family
members.
Now multiply the value with 0.85, you get kg
of CO2
Emission factor: An emission factor is a coefficient which allows to convert activity data into
GHG emissions. It is the average emission rate of a given source, relative to units of activity or
process/processes. (IPCC : Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change)

12. Step-2
TRANSPORT
Add number of litres of petrol/diesel you and your family
members used in car/motor cycle etc, in a year
Divide the value with the number of your family
members.
In case of Petrol, multiply the value with 2.296 and in case
of Diesel, multiply with 2.653. you get kg of CO2

13. Step-3
COOKING GAS (LPG)
A cylinder consists 14Kg of gas. Multiply the number of
cylinders used in your house with 14.
Divide the value with the number of your family
members.
Now multiply the value with 2.983, you get the Kg of CO2

14. Calculating carbon footprint generated by you
Add the values that you got in Step-1 + Step-2 + Step-3
(This value will be in Kgs of CO2)
Divide the final value with 1000 (to get in Tons of
CO2)
Final carbon foot print should be in Tons of CO2 (TCO2)

15. TASK-2
Steps you usually follow to reduce
the carbon foot print in day-to-day
life

16. S.
No
Way you follow to reduce carbon foot print Yes No
1 Unplug devices when not in use
2 Turn off lights when not in use
3 Use public Transport
4 Car pool to School
5 Use bicycle for short trip destinations
6 Walk for short trip destinations
7 Plant a tree
8 Wash clothes by hands
9 Use of plastic
10 Use water judiciously
11 Use Solar energy
12 Consume more vegetarian diet/or consume less non-
vegetarian
13 Re use items whenever one can
14 Any other (Name the activity)

17. REPORTING THE RESULTS OF STUDY
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