Abstract:

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is of great importance at the point of combating global warming, the effects of which are increasing day by day. In the solution of this problem addressed in the Kyoto Protocol, it is recommended to reduce carbon emissions to the lowest possible level. With this protocol, emission release quotas have been introduced to countries in order to calculate their carbon emissions accurately. It is necessary to create a greenhouse gas inventory and calculate the carbon footprints of emissions at the point of compliance with quota values. Carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental damage caused by human activities in terms of the amount of greenhouse gas produced. In this study, the carbon footprint caused by road vehicles in Çanakkale between the years 2015-2018 was calculated. In the calculations using the Tier 1 and Tier 2 approaches proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the carbon footprint, which was 701.435 Gg in 2015 in the Tier 1 approach, increased to 752.536 Gg in 2018 with an increase of over 7%; in the Tier 2 approach, the carbon footprint, which was 686.85 Gg in 2015, increased to 736.89 Gg in 2018.