ISO14067:2018
Greenhouse Gas, CFP Carbon footprint of products
Enterprises are paying more and more attention to the issue of climate change and developing products to mitigate climate change (Economist Intelligence Unit Report, 2009). Therefore, product carbon footprint has become one of the tools for governments and enterprises to achieve greenhouse gas reduction goals, and also a new medium for communicating with the public. From the perspective of greenhouse gas coverage, greenhouse gas inventory can be divided into three categories:
Carbon Footprint can be defined as the amount of greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly produced during the entire life cycle of an activity or product. Compared with the greenhouse gas emissions that everyone generally understands, the difference in carbon footprint is that it starts from the consumer side and breaks the so-called concept of "pollution only when there is a chimney". The greenhouse gas emissions of enterprises and industries generally refer to the emissions related to manufacturing, but the product carbon footprint emissions must also include the mining and manufacturing of product raw materials, assembly, transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions generated during use and disposal or recycling. gas emissions.
- Statistics on energy combustion emissions by country or region.
- For the enterprise or organization itself and related greenhouse gas emissions.
- Greenhouse gas emissions for the life cycle of an individual product; the so-called "product carbon footprint".
- According to a British survey, although greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5% between 1992 and 2004, in fact, if the indirect greenhouse gas emissions caused by consumption are included in the calculation, the emissions increased by 18%. (Wiedmann et al, 2008).
- Another study pointed out that China's total greenhouse gas emissions have surpassed that of the United States and become the world's largest, but as much as 23% of its emissions are caused by manufacturing products to meet the needs of advanced countries.
Carbon Footprint can be defined as the amount of greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly produced during the entire life cycle of an activity or product. Compared with the greenhouse gas emissions that everyone generally understands, the difference in carbon footprint is that it starts from the consumer side and breaks the so-called concept of "pollution only when there is a chimney". The greenhouse gas emissions of enterprises and industries generally refer to the emissions related to manufacturing, but the product carbon footprint emissions must also include the mining and manufacturing of product raw materials, assembly, transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions generated during use and disposal or recycling. gas emissions.