In the past carbon emission wasn’t high like nowadays. In past the people did not care about the CO2 and they did not use up the natural resources. Nowadays, most of the natural resources have been used to produce electricity and that means leaving high a carbon footprint of waste. This essay will show my research into carbon footprints and will suggest how to decrease our impact on environment.
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. I have visited many web sites to measure my carbon foot print and I found www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en so easy to use and it took only three minutes to do it. As I have small family the result was 1.1 planets and cooling taking majority of my foot print. So it seems very good in a hot county like the UAE. Then used another site http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ to see and to check. There were four categories food, travel, home, and stuff and I got 3.07 planets. It seems different because the calculator was more specific and has more questions. In the first site the result of producing CO2 per a year was 15.1 tones where the second one was 14.2 tones.
I compared my foot print to my four of class mates Abdulla got 3.0 planets, Anas got 2.3 planets as he lives alone. Sami got the highest foot print by 7.8 planets as use 8 cylinders vehicle and he travels a lot and he is careless about switch lights and devices off.
In brief, some of my class mates shocked by their foot print, so I suggest to them to reduce their foot prints by adjusting AC’s temperature and turn them off when out of home. In addition replace the lighting bulbs which more efficient to save the energy.
In last 10 years the UAE was educating the students in the schools to save the energy by very simple methods. The results were very good in a modern county and increasing of population.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. I have visited many web sites to measure my carbon foot print and I found www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en so easy to use and it took only three minutes to do it. As I have small family the result was 1.1 planets and cooling taking majority of my foot print. So it seems very good in a hot county like the UAE. Then used another site http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ to see and to check. There were four categories food, travel, home, and stuff and I got 3.07 planets. It seems different because the calculator was more specific and has more questions. In the first site the result of producing CO2 per a year was 15.1 tones where the second one was 14.2 tones.
I compared my foot print to my four of class mates Abdulla got 3.0 planets, Anas got 2.3 planets as he lives alone. Sami got the highest foot print by 7.8 planets as use 8 cylinders vehicle and he travels a lot and he is careless about switch lights and devices off.
In brief, some of my class mates shocked by their foot print, so I suggest to them to reduce their foot prints by adjusting AC’s temperature and turn them off when out of home. In addition replace the lighting bulbs which more efficient to save the energy.
In last 10 years the UAE was educating the students in the schools to save the energy by very simple methods. The results were very good in a modern county and increasing of population.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Heroes of the UAE. 30 Apr. 2009 http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en.
WWF Footprint Calculator. 30 Apr. 2009 http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/.
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