Özet:

The increasing population of the world and human needs, the demands of today’s social lifestyle lead to the extinction of existing resources over time and the increase in food production. As a result, increased production on reduced resources has led to the spread of intensive farming systems that enable more production in the unit area, as in dairy livestock. This has led to many environmental problems, and climate change and global warming are one of them. Global warming is the name given to an increase in the average temperatures measureed on the ground, sea and air over the year on the earth as a result of the greenhouse effects thought to be caused by the main gases released into the atmosphere. Milk livestock using intensive farming systems are an important source of gases (carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that cause global warming. The concept of carbon footprint has been revealed in people’s activities, they can clearly see production and consumption outcomes. The carbon footprint is the measure of the damage to the environment by human activities in terms of the amount of greenhouse gas produced from the unit CO2. The most common method used in the calculation of carbon footprint of all other industrial productions, as in milk farming, is the Tier 1-2-3 approaches developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This study determined the contribution to global warming by calculating the carbon footprint Tier 1 method of a milk beef enterprise operating in the Bursa region.

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