Carbon and water Footprint

Description

The course provides information on the importance, advantages and disadvantages, and reasons for undertaking a carbon footprint. It provides the student with knowledge of the existing carbon footprint standards and methods. The students will learn about product and corporate carbon footprint. This course also provides practical examples of carbon footprints applied at the product, service, and organisational levels. Students will be trained to understand the results of carbon footprint analysis, to carry them out, to conduct critical reviews of footprints, to propose measures to reduce the footprint, and to verify, report, and communicate the results effectively. During this course, they will also learn about reduction targets, carbon neutrality, and carbon offsets. In addition, the course will provide the students with the fundamental knowledge of the water footprint. During this course, students will learn about the importance and trends of water consumption worldwide and in Europe. They will learn about corporate and product water footprint, as well as blue, green, and grey water footprint. They will be familiar with water footprint standards and tools, and will practice calculating the water footprint.