A natural amount of CO2 plays a crucial part in maintaining our ecosystem. However, excess CO2 created by man-made activities such as extracting, refining, transporting and burning fossil fuels emits too much greenhouse gases. This is a form of air pollution that changes the earth’s climate by trapping heat that then disrupts weather patterns and causes global temperatures to rise, which is where we get the term ‘climate change’.
The term ‘carbon emissions’ was coined to describe the amount of CO2 produced by human activity. By measuring ‘carbon emissions’ we can understand the extent of the damage being done to then find rapid solutions that can reverse the impact.