Are you aware of how your steel industry affects our habitat? Do you acknowledge the existence of carbon footprints? We encourage you to keep reading this article!
If the steel industry were a country, it would rank third in the world –in terms of carbon dioxide emissions– after the United States and ahead of India. According to the World Steel Association, aside from producing 1.86 billion metric tonnes (t) of steel last year, steelmakers produced nearly 3 billion t of CO2, accounting for 7–9% of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions. No other industrial substance has a bigger impact on the environment. The steel sector will need to reduce its carbon footprint dramatically to help prevent global warming.
But what is a carbon footprint? The total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, service, place, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), is referred to as a carbon footprint. Luckily, in the last year, several CO2 trackers were developed to help us be conscious of how our actions impact negatively on the planet. Consequently, we can become more eco-friendly and sustainable.
A Carbon Calculator API allows everyone to control information regarding the CO2 emissions their daily habits or business activities release on the environment. Therefore, any sector, such as the steel industry, should use one to track and manage its carbon footprint.
CarbonAPI
If you want an all in one API to calculate your carbon footprint, you want CarbonAPI. This tool gets every industry impacts on the environment. That’s why it gives you a way to travel down the zero-emissions road. In other words, this software helps your industry achieve climate goals and impulse social responsibility in your company. After all, businesses that embrace sustainability are more commercially viable.
As a result, CarbonAPI calculates the emissions emitted in production units per hour, material consumption units per hour, or whichever units the emission factor is expressed in. You can upload consumption of up to 1 year ago to discover your steel industry’s CO2 emissions in KG. Plus, the API provides you with analytical graphs of your consumption for transparent reporting.
All in all, you can send footprint data through the API or upload it directly from the website, and CarbonAPI will classify the information through different calculations to return your carbon footprint in KG of carbon. Not to mention its cloud infrastructure makes the user interface integration simple. So you can customise the API integration to match your brand’s look, feel, and functionality (find specific endpoints and integration options in the developer documentation).
Feel free to test the easy-to-use CarbonAPI. You can do it at no cost! There’s a free version which includes the Carbon footprint calculator, Online reports and API access. And, every month, you can make up to 20 requests or entries in the calculator. Is it not enough? No problem! You can always upgrade to a billed plan with translucent prices to know what you will pay.
What do you say? Do you want to make the world a greener place? Measure the carbon footprint of your steel industry using an API today.