La huella ecológica corporativa de los materiales : aplicación al sector comercial

The ecological footprint is a sustainability indicator of unique index, developed by Rees and Wackernagel in 1996, which weighs up the impacts of a population on the Earth in terms of hectares of ecosystems or “nature”. The ecological footprint is habitually utilized for regions or countries (…) but can also be used for corporations and any other type of organization (Domenech, 2006). In this paper, the Corporative Ecological Footprint is calculated for a commercial corporation, concretely a car dealership of the eastern coast of Spain, from its annual consumption. Next, some indices to convert consumption of energy and materials into hectares are recalculated following the methodology employed by Domenech (2006) for the Port Authority of Gijón. Finally, some new indices are proposed in substitution of the previous ones and a new tool (an EXCEL sheet) is designed to calculate the Corporative Ecological Footprint.