Sustainable Education Tools: A calculator for the emissions of Greenhouse Effect Compounds Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • This paper describes the use of a calculator for the emissions of Greenhouse Effect Compounds as a Sustainable Education Tool, using the case of a major Mexican transnational food company. In 2012 the Climate Change General Law (LGCC, for its name in Spanish) [1], was published and came into force, making Mexico the first developing country that counts with a law on this matter. The LGCC (Ley General de Cambio Climático) establishes the creation of diverse instruments of public policy, one being the National Emissions Registry [2] (RENE for its name in Spanish) and its regulations. The creation of agreements for defining the technical aspects of the Registry are established in these regulations. One of these agreements, the Grouping of Gases and Greenhouse Compounds and their Global Warming Potential, identifies the chemical substances following an internationally accepted denomination which is defined by specialized associations in the subject. In a capstone project, students created a calculator for a major Mexican transnational food company that can be used to report the emissions produced by their fleet. This report alerts if the Greenhouse Compounds exceed 25,000 tCO2e (tons of CO2 equivalent). For this purpose, the production of direct and indirect gases or compounds of this nature are calculated for their installations; the categories evaluated consider the following: Energy, Industry, Transport and Residuals. © IISE and Expo 2023.All rights reserved.

publication date

  • January 1, 2023