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When factoring heat generation required for the manufacturing and transportation of products, Greenhouse gas emissions attributable to products, from food to sneakers to appliances, make up more than 75% of global emissions. -The Carbon Catalogue
Our data, which is publicly available on nature.com, contains product carbon footprints (PCFs) for various companies. PCFs are the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a given product, measured in CO2 (carbon dioxide equivalent).
This data is stored in a PostgreSQL database containing one table, prouduct_emissions, which looks at PCFs by product as well as the stage of production that these emissions occurred. Here's a snapshot of what product_emissions contains in each column:
product_emissions
product_emissions| field | data type |
|---|---|
id | VARCHAR |
year | INT |
product_name | VARCHAR |
company | VARCHAR |
country | VARCHAR |
industry_group | VARCHAR |
weight_kg | NUMERIC |
carbon_footprint_pcf | NUMERIC |
upstream_percent_total_pcf | VARCHAR |
operations_percent_total_pcf | VARCHAR |
downstream_percent_total_pcf | VARCHAR |
You'll use this data to examine the carbon footprint of each industry in the dataset!
SELECT industry_group,
COUNT(DISTINCT company) AS num_companies,
ROUND(SUM(carbon_footprint_pcf), 1) AS total_industry_footprint
FROM product_emissions
WHERE year IN (SELECT MAX(year) FROM product_emissions)
GROUP BY industry_group
ORDER BY total_industry_footprint DESC