Cálculo de la huella ecológica corporativa en la Empresa Florícola Falcon Farms del Ecuador del año 2019

Abstract

The Ecological Footprint (EF) has become over time one of the most promising indicators to measure the environmental impact of a given territory, and has been spreading to companies or organizations with different methods adopted in each country and/or by specifications of a particular productive sector, where it is proposed to obtain data on all energy consumption, materials and services of a certain period of time for quantitative measurement. This process is called the corporate Ecological Footprint (EF) or Footprint of the companies. In this project, as a first point, a baseline is described, explaining and analyzing the current environmental situation of the field of study. In this project it will be a flower company belonging to the Falcon Farms group of Ecuador, located 10 km from the city of Cayambe. As a second point is the development of the HE methodology, which was selected through the analysis of the sector, giving a positive result to the composite method of accounting accounts (MC3). Where it has been developed in different economic sectors such as seaports, fishing companies, providing an improvement in the environmental performance of the organization. This method can generate results both in hectares and CO2 emissions, allowing to convert all the impacts of the organization in a single unit of measurement for evaluation and interpretation of the results. And finally, improvement opportunities are established for the reduction of values in relation to the categories that contribute the highest percentage to the total ecological footprint, giving the following theoretical results: electricity with 0 gha, waste with 20.50 gha and fuels with 8.00 gha, leaving the organization free to choose its application and implementation.