The Carbon Footprint of a Furniture Industry Facility: Evaluation of the Impact Progress Over 2013–2019

The increasing social and political pressure on the development of more sustainable industries has led to an increase in the importance given by organizations to their products’ impact on the ecosystems. Carbon Footprint is a valuable tool in the assessment of those impacts. This study used Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions to estimate the carbon emissions of a furniture industry plant and evaluate the evolution of those emissions in the 2013–2019 period. It was found that the main contributor to the studied plant carbon emissions is electricity consumption. In the scope of this work, it is highlighted the positive progress in the greenhouse gas emissions over the set period, mainly throughout 2017–2019, as a result of an important investment in solar energy.