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Why is the impact category ‘Carbon Footprint’ important?

'Carbon Footprint' measures product emissions, crucial for understanding climate impact as greenhouse gases exacerbate global warming.

Greenhouse gas emissions (like carbon) trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and exacerbate global warming – a colossal problem in today’s world. The concept of ‘carbon footprint’ is a simple way to communicate our impact on the climate. 

A product’s carbon footprint refers to the total greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere as a result of all the activities completed to create that product (across the entire life cycle). Carbon footprint is expressed as CO2-eq – a metric that translates all greenhouse gases into the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.