{"id":27585,"date":"2019-09-05T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/sustainability\/environment-and-quality\/huella-de-carbono\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:35:29","slug":"carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"What carbon footprint is?"},"content":{"rendered":"    <m-final-content-header >\n            <c-breadcrumb label-text=\"Breadcrumb\" slot=\"breadcrumbs\" type='2' align='left' wrap='wrapped wrapped' aria-label='You came from Resources'>\n                        <ol>\n\n                                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/\" title=\"Ferrovial\">Ferrovial<\/a><\/li>\n                                                                        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/\" title=\"Resources\">Resources<\/a><\/li>\n                                    \n                <\/ol>\n\n                <\/c-breadcrumb>\n    \n        <div slot=\"header\">\n            <h1>\n                Carbon footprint            <\/h1>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/m-final-content-header>\n\n    \n\n\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n  \"mainEntity\": [{\n    \"@type\": \"Question\",\n    \"name\": \"What is a carbon footprint?\",\n    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n      \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n      \"text\": \"It is an environmental indicator that measures the total amount of greenhouses gases (GHG) produced by aspecific activity. 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It also includes other GHGs: carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO) and non-methane(CH) volatile organic compounds (NMVOC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is it used for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common measurement used is tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or tCO. It estimates the impact activities have on atmospheric air, even if they do not necessarily release this molecule into the atmosphere. The joint goal of our industry \u2014 in line with the 2030 Plan and a decarbonized and circular economy \u2014 is to reduce CO emissions and, therefore, reduce the world\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2009, we have been auditing our total greenhouse gas emissions (calculating their equivalency intCO) with different GHG-measuring indicators (depending on the activity to measure): Scope 1 and 2for our direct activities and Scope 3 for activities derived from our value chain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Scope 1. Direct emissions: emissions from sources controlled by the company. They proceed from fuel combustion from stationary equipment, diffuse emissions such as biogas emissions from a landfill, and fugitive emissions (refrigerants).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scope 2. Indirect emissions: emissions resulting from the consumption of electricity purchased from other companies which produce or control it. Every year we increase our 100% renewable energy sources to reduce these numbers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scope 3. Value chain: emissions derived from transportation and distribution or sales processes. We calculate them following the Corporate Value Chain Accounting and Reporting Standard, published by GHG Protocol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The sum of Scope 1&amp;2&amp;3 is equal to the company\u2019s total carbon footprint. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/m-wysiwig>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What the carbon footprint is and what it shows | Ferrovial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact resulting from our activities, and it is calculated according to the amount of gas emissions...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What the carbon footprint is and what it shows | Ferrovial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact resulting from our activities, and it is calculated according to the amount of gas emissions...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ferrovial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ferrovial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-06T09:35:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ferrovial\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What the carbon footprint is and what it shows | Ferrovial","description":"The carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact resulting from our activities, and it is calculated according to the amount of gas emissions...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What the carbon footprint is and what it shows | Ferrovial","og_description":"The carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact resulting from our activities, and it is calculated according to the amount of gas emissions...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/","og_site_name":"Ferrovial","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ferrovial","article_modified_time":"2025-08-06T09:35:29+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@ferrovial","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/","name":"What the carbon footprint is and what it shows | Ferrovial","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-09-05T14:54:08+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-06T09:35:29+00:00","description":"The carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact resulting from our activities, and it is calculated according to the amount of gas emissions...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/carbon-footprint\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Resources","item":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/resources\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What carbon footprint is?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/","name":"Ferrovial","description":"Welcome to the Ferrovial&#039;s website, global operator of sustainable infrastructure. 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