Greater use of carbon footprint calculator required
At an event on environment organised by Rotary Club of Bombay Pier, RID 3141, RI President Shekhar Mehta commended the development of Rotary South Asia’s first club-specific carbon footprint calculator and urged all Rotarians to use it widely. Climate change is a serious issue and with the introduction of the new focus area in Rotary— supporting the Environment — such measures are vital to enable us to regulate human activities causing emissions.
The carbon footprint calculator was the initiative of Jaideep Malaviya, chairperson of Renewable Energy and Climate Change at RI District 3131. He is a past president of RC Pune Camp. “This calculates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that occur as a result of the various activities involved in a typical club meeting or a project such as the number of vehicles used to travel, quantum of electricity used, food items served, etc,” he says.
It can be accessed at https://cfc-environment2122rid3131.vercel.app. The app was developed by Rtr Vedant Ghate, RAC Pune Mid East, and Arati Bhosale Ahiwale.
Malaviya says that after the necessary data requested is filled, the app pops up the carbon emissions that would have emanated for that particular Rotary activity. He was recently elected to the board of directors of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) through a global voting process.
