Determinación de la huella de carbono de la facultad de recursos naturales de la ESPOCH al año 2019.

Abstract

The objective of this investigation was to determine the Carbon Footprint for the year 2019 generated by the Faculty of Natural Resources of ESPOCH through the methodology ISO 14604:1 Standard to propose mitigation and carbon neutralization strategies to minimize environmental impacts of the organization. For this, an inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was carried out, where the limits of the organization, the reporting limits were stipulated and later the sources of GHG emissions were identified and the emissions were categorized into: direct emissions mobile combustion, indirect emissions from imported electricity, indirect emissions caused by transportation, and indirect emissions from solid waste disposal. Subsequently, for the quantification of emissions, the equations proposed by the ISO 14064:2018 Standard were used and the emission factors proposed by the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) were considered, with the exception of the emission factor for electricity imported, since the data provided by the National Interconnected System (SNI) was used. The results pointed out that, the Faculty of Natural Resources in its operations generated a total of 456.79 tons of equivalent carbon, of this, 54% corresponds to emissions from the automotive fleet, 21% corresponds to mobile combustion generated by the fuel burning in the use of agricultural machinery, then 18% corresponds to emissions from imported electricity and the remaining 7% corresponds to emissions generated by waste management. It is recommended to continue with the determination of the Carbon Footprint for the rest of the ESPOCH Faculties in order to obtain a global indicator for the entire institution.