Personal Footprint, Product and Organizational Sustainability Analysis

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PERSONAL FOOTPRINT, PRODUCT AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
ANALYSIS
By
Name
Professor’s Name
Course Number
College/University Name
Street
Date

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1. RESULTS
By Land Type
0.2gha Built-Up Land
0.6gha Forest Products
1.2gha Cropland
0.1gha Grazing Land
0.1gha Fishing Grounds
3.2gha Carbon Footprint
By Consumption Category
1.2gha Food
0.5gha Shelter
1.4gha Mobility
1.2gha Goods
1.1gha Services
5.3 Your Ecological Footprint (global hectares or gha)
9.3 Your Carbon Footprint (CO2 emissions in tonnes per year)
60 Your Carbon Footprint (% of your total Ecological Footprint)

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2. With reference to your results perform the following tasks
a. Explain the meaning of your ecological footprint measured in global hectares
with reference to relevant benchmarks.
Ecological footprint refers to measure of accounting used by businesses or
government to investigate how much biological capacity of planet is needed by
human population or activity in global hectares (Fang, Heijungs, & de Snoo, 2014).
Moreover, the concept of Ecological Footprint helps to account for flows of energy
and matter in economy and converts them into land / water area to support these
flows as required by nature. Thus a person with 5.3 global hectares Ecological
Footprint requires 5.3 global hectares of area at any period.
b. Carbon footprint and sequestration
Carbon Footprint refers to total amount of greenhouse gases that are directly or
indirectly produced to support human activities and is expressed in tons (tons per
year) of carbon dioxide. Carbon sequestration is the process by which carbon
dioxide (CO2) is absorbed through photosynthesis from the atmosphere and then
stored in soils and biomass (Mancini et al., 2016). Therefore, Carbon Footprint
enhances human life through forest carbon sequestration that leaves the
atmosphere free from carbon emissions.