Meios de transporte utilizados e a contribuição para a Pegada de Carbono da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - Campus Londrina

Abstract

With the upcoming needs for fast and cheap transportation, Brazil’s main transport option for both people and goods are through motorways. The main consequence is the increasing number of fossil-fuel vehicles that are directly related to the increase of atmospheric pollutants being released to the atmosphere. It is known that these pollutants are responsible for several environment and health problems. University’s are seeing as an institution that should bring answers to society’s problems, following its bases that includes spreading knowledge as well as managing its own activities impacts in the environment. Similar studies have shown that the community’s commuting trends to the universities are responsible for most of the CO2eq emissions. This being said, the main point of this project is to measure what are the university’s environmental externalities due to commuting trends. This project measured the impact through an environmental indicator called Carbon Footprint that allows the quantification of the impact, progress monitoring and validation of strategies to mitigate those impacts, all to a common goal that is to propagate knowledge to influence the community and decision makers regarding pro-environment behaviours. The main travel method and the distance commuter’s travel to the university was collected through a multiple choice online form and, with the emission factors collected from existing bibliography, the total emissions were 114.40 tons of CO2eq for the 278 (10,55%) individuals sampled and 1,084.32 tons of CO2eq when extrapolated for the total community for the 2nd semester of 2017.