Environmental Sciences, asked by manthu85111, 10 days ago

XYZ Enterprise operates at a location owned by it, in a building of its own. Annually, it uses 600 GJ of heating oil to heat office space and 200 GJ of natUfal gas to heat water. It uses electricity to light up its office space. 50% of electricity used comes from the captive power plant owned by it and they purchase the rest 50% of electricity. The total electricity used by the company’s building in a year is 400000 kWh. Employees commute via company’s bus, their own cars and public transport. They use train and airplane for long business trips.

Information obtained ffom travel reimbursement forms submitted to XYZ Enterprise, calculates that its employees have traveled 75000 km by train this year. From information obtained from its travel agent and collected from travel reimbursement forms, XYZ Enterprise calculates that its employees have flown 2,000,000 business air miles on commercial planes this year. The company’s bus travels 50000 km every year. The total annual fuel consumed by employees commuting via their own car is around 10000 gallons.

Office materials like furniture, paper, equipment, toner cartridges, etc. used by it are outsourced from a third party. Incineration of office waste and decomposition in a landfill is done in a facility, which is not owned by XYZ enterprise.

With respect to the above-mentioned scenario, answer the questions below.


Question 1. What should be the organizational and opera tional boundary of XYZ en terprise. lden tify company’s emissions sources and categorize them in various scopes.

Question 2. Calculate total scope 1 carbon dioxide emissions for XYZ enterprise.

Question 3. Calculate total scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions for XYZ enterprise.

Question 4. Calculate scope 3 carbon dioxide emissions for XYZ enterprise, from the sources for which the information is available.

Question S. What are the various ways in which XYZ enterprise can reduce its emissions, in all the three scopes?

Question 6: After a few years XYZ enterprise decides to sublease a part of its office space ro another organization called NPX enterprise. How will this decision of XYZ enterprise impact its emissions accounting ? How can they avoid the problem of double counting, in case NPX enterprise also decides to report their emissions?

Question 7: Emissions under which scope is most difficult to verify. What challenges it may present.

Question 8: What kind of circumstances might require XYZ enterprise to reduce its emissions at present and prepare for further cutting its emissions in future.

question 9: Later, XYZ enterprise decides to actively pursue GHG trading markets as a means of further improving its GHG performance. To succeed in these efforts what groundvvork needs to be done by the company to be eligible for emerg ing trading schemes.

Question 10: Given the curren t environmental CfÌSÌS, accOrding to you which would be the most appropriate tool, among carbon max and cap and trade mechanism, for meeting our targets of keeping global temperatufe rise below 2 degrees cen tigrade. Give reasons to justify you answer.

Answers

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