Carbon Footprint: Causes, Impacts and Sector-Wise Survey

As technology grows and urbanization continues, life gets better for everyone with a better quality of life. But this ever increasing growth in all aspects of society has had an unfavorable effect on environmental issues in hand. Technological advancements have led to an enormous rise in carbon emission levels since the last two decades, recording the highest amount in the year of 2021. Energy production, transportation, industries and manufacturing are the major sectors contributing heavily to the global carbon footprint. This ultimately boils down to the excessive use of nonrenewable energy resources and how in turn it is disturbing the ecological balance of our planet. If this goes on as things stand, our future generations will suffer to fulfill their basic needs. Environmental friendly sustainable development technologies should be adopted in order to limit our carbon emission levels. Authorities and policy makers should focus on bringing in these large scale development changes in the most effective and efficient manner. This is only possible if there is absolute clarity on which sectors contribute the most to global carbon footprint. Thus, in this paper we have studied various sectors contributing to carbon emission and have summarised on new technologies and ideas which could positively impact the current environmental issues.