Abstract
Abstract. The electricity consumption for commercial, residential, and industrial sectors is considered the primary cause of increasing carbon dioxide emissions. To calculate the carbon footprint, the researcher used Carbon Footprint Ltd. This study aims to quantify the carbon footprint associated with the consumption of electricity by sectors (residential, commercial, industrial, public buildings, and streetlights) in Butuan City during the pre-lockdown period (January and February), and then compare these with the carbon footprint calculated during the lockdown period (March and April 2020). A GIS-based approach was applied to generate the spatial distribution across the 86 barangays of Butuan City. The study findings that the carbon footprint in the lockdown period is ∼ −17% lower than the mean carbon footprint calculated for the pre-lockdown period. In absolute values, the total estimated carbon footprint during the pre-lockdown and lockdown period was ∼ 10,947 mtCo2e and ∼ 9,138 mtCo2e, respectively. Furthermore, the findings imply that the central and northern areas have the highest impact of savings on average ∼ 130 mtCo2e of greenhouse gas avoided by barangays. This research provides quantitative insight to understand the measured generated in lockdown and pre-lockdown periods.
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a coronavirus-related viral disease that produces severe acute respiratory syndrome (Zhu et al, 2019)
The main findings of this study are that the carbon footprint (CF) due to the electricity consumption occurring in Butuan City during the COVID-19 lockdown is diverse from the prelockdown period
It was highlighted that March and April 2020 are associated with the COVID-19 lockdown period
Summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a coronavirus-related viral disease that produces severe acute respiratory syndrome (Zhu et al, 2019). Much recent research has investigated the consequences of company collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small, and medium enterprise outbreaks, showing a significant drop in carbon dioxide emissions connected with fewer anthropogenic activities (Carugno et al, 2020) and (Contini and Costable, 2020). ArcGIS is an integrated collection of GIS software products that provides a standardsbased platform for spatial analysis, data management, and mapping (ESR Institution, 2009). GIS is a geographic information system that captures, stores, manipulates, analyzes, manages, and displays spatial or geographic data (Biradar, 2005). The coronavirus effect had a significant negative impact on the overall carbon footprint in terms of electricity consumption. The amount of carbon emission has decreased significantly (Mylenka, 2020)
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