气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon Footprint

CCPortal

DOI	10.3390/su16051976
	A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon Footprint
	Senese, Antonella; Caspani, Anna Claudia; Lombardo, Lorenzo; Manara, Veronica; Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Adele; Maugeri, Maurizio
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2071-1050
起始页码	16
结束页码	5
卷号	16 期号:5
英文摘要	In recent decades, climate change has demanded more and more attention. Consumers have the power to influence the carbon footprint of goods and services through their purchasing decisions, but to do this they need to learn more. To address this need, it is necessary to develop online questionnaires able to make people aware of which activities have a greater environmental impact in their daily lives. Focusing on this goal, we formulated two tools for quantifying an individual's carbon footprint over a year. The innovativeness of these tools lies in being user-friendly and providing online open access to compilers, as well as using specific emission factors for the reference context. Specifically, we focused on the main emission sources: gas and electricity consumption, mobility, food, and waste. During these last years, the tools have been proposed to Italian students at different levels of education and to employees of Italian and international companies. The responses from 3260 users revealed an average annual direct carbon footprint per capita of about 5600 kg CO2-eq, which, integrated with the estimate of indirect emissions, provides an estimate in good agreement with the value provided by the Italian National Inventory of greenhouse gases. With the developed tools, people are able to observe which sectors have the greatest impact and consequently are stimulated to emit less by adopting more sustainable behaviors.
英文关键词	online tool; greenhouse gas emissions; carbon footprint; individual impact; environmental awareness
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001182914300001
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296515
作者单位	University of Milan; University of Insubria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Senese, Antonella,Caspani, Anna Claudia,Lombardo, Lorenzo,et al. A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon Footprint[J],2024,16(5).
APA	Senese, Antonella,Caspani, Anna Claudia,Lombardo, Lorenzo,Manara, Veronica,Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Adele,&Maugeri, Maurizio.(2024).A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon Footprint.SUSTAINABILITY,16(5).
MLA	Senese, Antonella,et al."A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon Footprint".SUSTAINABILITY 16.5(2024).