Carbon Footprint Assessments Case Studies & Best Practices

Climate change and its impacts are well known, and it is not hard to see the effects of climate change vulnerability to daily lives in many parts of the world. The need to assess and reduce carbon footprint is not specific to any industrial sector; rather it is an imperative to all aspects of industry. To that end, this  book offers case studies detailing methods and best practices toward the assessment of carbon footprint in various industrial spaces. The chapters here highlight the urgency of measuring and alleviating the climate change impacts for various industrial sectors, and together they offer an overview of the current state of research on carbon footprint assessment in different industries ranging from textiles, agriculture, logistics, wine production, and more.

1 Carbon Footprint Assessments.- 2 Carbon Footprints in Agriculture.- 3 An In-depth Exploration of Carbon Footprint Analysis in the Construction Sector with Emphasis on the Dam Industry.- 4 A Comprehensive Review of Carbon Footprints in the Wine Supply Chain in Italy.- 5 Carbon Footprint of Fashion.- 6 Strategies to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Protective Face Masks.- 7 Nature-based Solutions to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Increase Resilience of Road Transportation Infrastructure.- 8 Carbon Footprint as a Tool to Improve Sustainability.- 9 Carbon Footprint Assessment of Agricultural Production Systems under the Variable System Boundary Scenarios.- 10 Offsetting Carbon Footprints.- 11 Climate Response and Nature-based Solutions.- 12 Implementing Circular Economy Principles in Road Transport.- 13 Best Practices Applied in Logistic Intern.- 14 Sowing the Future.- 15 Green Bonds and the Incentive to Decrease the Carbon Footprint in the Brazilian Agribusiness Sector.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade’s of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 190 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.