The Port of Barcelona has become the first port in the Mediterranean and one of the first in the world to use ISO 14064 to calculate the carbon footprint of all activities carried out in the port territory.

As disclosed, the first calculation of this footprint, corresponding to the year 2022 and certified by classification society DNV, has been 495,356 tCO2eq, of which 349,399 tCO2eq correspond to the activities that were previously included in the port’s carbon footprint and 145,957 tCO2eq come from the new activities incorporated, such as industry, port works and ship waste.