ESTUDIO DE COMPENSACION DE CO2 GENERANDO POR EL CAMPUS UEES MEDIANTE UNA PLANTACION DE TECA (TECTONAGRANDIS), EN LA PROVINCIA DEL GUAYAS

Abstract

Global warming is based on the increase in greenhouse gases, for that reason higher educational institutions have begun to work towards sustainability, therefore, they are introducing this concept at all areas of their activities, being the care and conservation of the natural environment a priority. The greenhouse gases emitted by the Campus UEES, product of their daily activities, mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), causes a negative impact, therefore the basis of this project is to offset those emissions, and because of the ability of plants for carbon sequestration, the tree cover has been considered as a viable use form of compensation. This paper presents an alternative that can be applied to UEES Campus to abate environmental degradation through the emission compensation. The average of the Campus UEES CO2 emissions are 871, 17 tons for the last year, this study determined that it is needed 8, 22 hectares of a 5 years old Tectona grandis plantation in order to mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases.