Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Footprint Measure

AKA: Carbon Footprint.
Context:
- It can range from being a Personal Carbon Footprint, a Event Carbon Footprint, an Organization Carbon Footprint, ...
See: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Dioxide Equivalent, Global Warming Potential.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/carbon_footprint Retrieved:2021-11-18.
- A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an individual, event, organization, service, place or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e). Greenhouse gases, including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane, can be emitted through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. The term was popularized by a $250 million advertising campaign by the oil and gas company BP in an attempt to move public attention away from restricting the activities of fossil fuel companies and onto individual responsibility for solving climate change. In most cases, the total carbon footprint cannot be calculated exactly because of inadequate knowledge of and data about the complex interactions between contributing processes, including the influence of natural processes that store or release carbon dioxide. For this reason, Wright, Kemp, and Williams proposed the following definition of a carbon footprint: The global average annual carbon footprint per person in 2014 was about 5 tonnes CO₂e. Although there are many ways to calculate a carbon footprint, the Nature Conservancy suggests that the average carbon footprint for a U.S. citizen is 16 tons. This is considered to be one of the highest rates in the world.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying
- QUOTE: ... A return flight from London to San Francisco emits around 5.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per person – more than twice the emissions produced by a family car in a year, and about half of the average carbon footprint of someone living in Britain. Even a return flight from London to Berlin emits around 0.6 tonnes CO2e – three times the emissions saved from a year of recycling. ...