Environmental footprint
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The Environmental Footprint is a measurement of the environmental impact generated by a product or service throughout its life cycle, enabling the company’s environmental performance and its evolution over time to be assessed so that the actions required to reduce the company’s environmental impact and improve its environmental management can be planned. At Naturgy, we calculate our Environmental footprint every year.
In order to reduce the impact of our products and services (direct environmental footprint), we calculate the Environmental Footprint of the whole company year after year using a calculation tool we call environmental units (UMAS). These are based on life cycle analyses and follow the stages set out in the ISO 14040 international standards.
This method quantifies the various components of the overall footprint:
The water consumption footprint
The climate change footprint
The resources footprint
The atmospheric footprint
The waste footprint
The biodiversity footprint
This method quantifies the various components of the overall footprint:
The water consumption footprint
The climate change footprint
The resources footprint
The atmospheric footprint
The waste footprint
The biodiversity footprint
The environmental footprint calculation enables the company’s environmental performance and its evolution over time to be calculated so that the actions required to reduce its environmental impact and improve its environmental management can be planned. It begins with a characterisation of the environmental aspect quantified according to certain impact categories:
Acidification
Toxicological impact on the air
Winter or photochemical smog
Waste generation
Global warming
Aquatic ecotoxicity
Consumption of energy, water
and other resources
Energy consumption, among others
Acidification
Toxicological impact on the air
Winter or photochemical smog
Waste generation
Global warming
Aquatic ecotoxicity
Consumption of energy, water
and other resources
Energy consumption, among others