Overview

This volume orients readers to the concept of energy footprints and their implications for sustainability and offers several cases that illustrate this concept. Significantly, a detailed review chapter presents a of models and methods for measurement of energy footprints across different industrial sectors. Following this, case study chapters from India and the United States offer demonstrations of the application of the described principles. The metrics and indicators described here and means to assess them offer powerful tools for organizations to work toward sustainability and the achievement of the United nations seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.

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Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade’s of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 180 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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