Open AccessCarbon Footprint Estimation of A Medium-Sized School in an Urban City
Author(s) -
Pranav Rao Harish G K and Arunakumar N C
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst060917
Subject(s) - carbon footprint , greenhouse gas , offset (computer science) , carbon offset , kyoto protocol , scope (computer science) , environmental economics , computer science , environmental science , business , economics , ecology , biology , programming language
National Academy For Learning (NAFL), Bengaluru has been actively working to make the schoolcarbon-neutral under the NAFL Green initiative. The present investigation conform the effort and presents thetrajectory for understanding and estimating the carbon footprint of the school, and suggests potentialsolutions. It uses the GHG Protocol’s Corporate Standard, which categorizes emissions into three scopesbased on their source. The study extensively explores each of the three scopes and emission offsets, andreports the carbon footprint of NAFL to be 107030kg CO2e. The major contributor to this is the third-partytransportation facility, accounting for almost 75% of the emissions. The trees maintained by the school offsetonly 1.3% of the carbon dioxide emissions. This indicates that there still remains a huge scope forimprovement in the carbon footprint, and so potential methods of reducing the footprint are suggested.Additionally, in order to allow for a similar estimation to be made by others, a python GUI programme isdeveloped. The study concludes that the school needs to address its carbon footprint using the recommendedsolutions in this study. The study will also hopefully kindle similar studies that can collectively aid in a betterunderstanding of the situation.