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From the above discussion, we know that carbon footprint is a parameter that measures the GHG emissions from the human’s activities. In this chapter, we will further discuss how to measure this parameter or, in other words, how to prepare a GHG inventory. What we measure is “something’s” carbon footprint and that “something” could be a building, a hotel, a company, a factory, a production line, a product, an event, an exhibition, etc., and we only focus on six Kyoto gases, as we mentioned in Sect. 1.6.
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Zhou, S.W.W. (2020). Carbon Footprint Measurement. In: Carbon Management for a Sustainable Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35062-8_2
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