Carbon Footprints

A carbon footprint is a short-hand for measuring the impact that a product, organisation, or series of actions has in emitting greenhouse gases.The gases considered are those identified by the Kyoto Protocol. Under the Protocol, 37 industrialized countries have commited to a reduction of four greenhouse gases (GHG) (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride) nd two groups of gases (hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons) In order to normalise the measurement for all these emissions they are all compared relative to the so-called carbon dioxide equivalent or C02e.