Proceedings of Postgraduate Conference on Global Green Issues (Go Green),UiTM (Perak), Malaysia, XX date xxx An Assessment of Carbon Footprint at Universiti Teknologi MARA Seri Iskandar Perak, Malaysia Nor Izana Mohd Shobri 1 , Wan Noor Anira Hj Wan Ali @ Yaacob 2, Norizan Mt Akhir 3, Siti Rasidah Md Sakip 4 1 Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA (Perak), Malaysia, Email: izana980@perak.uitm.edu.my 2 Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA (Perak), Malaysia, Email: wannoor367@perak.uitm.edu.my 3 Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA (Perak), Malaysia, Email: noriz102@perak.uitm.edu.my 4 Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA (Perak), Malaysia, Email: sitir704@perak.uitm.edu.my Abstract Climate change and global warming have worsened since over the past year due to the greenhouse gas emission. Evidences show one of the main factors that contributes to global warming is the impact of carbon footprint. Human activities are the causes of a great deal of carbon footprint. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the carbon footprint emission at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Seri Iskandar, Perak. The study focuses on two categories specifically on electrical power and transportation usage that contribute to carbon footprint emission. A survey on transportation was conducted by distributing questionnaire to the staff and students within the university. Meanwhile for electrical power consumption, the study used monthly electricity bills to measure the amount of energy consumed. Data was collected and calculated with the formula developed by Green House Gas protocol, resulted in the total carbon footprint produced by UiTM Seri Iskandar Perak for the year 2014. The result of the study is hoped to provide guidelines and strategies for the university to reduce the carbon footprint emission at UiTM Seri Iskandar, Perak. Keywords: global warming, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Introduction It is well known that greenhouse gases emission is the main effect of global warming and climate change. Global warming caused the ice to melt, and disaster and critical weather changes that affect human, animals and environment. Nowadays, our environment becomes worst with the phenomenon of climate change and global warming due to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Evidence showed that one of the main factors that contribute to this phenomenon is the impact of carbon footprint. The GHG occurred when some gases trap heat in the atmosphere. The GHG emission includes the gases which occur naturally in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases which comprise of hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, nitrogen trifluoride and chlorofluorocarbons. These fluorinated gases are synthetic and emitted from a variety of industrial processes and human activities. They are also referred to as powerful GHG and some of fluorinated gases cause the ozone depletion even though the amount of emitted gases is small. Carbon footprint is one of the measurements for greenhouse gas emission that is released directly and indirectly to the atmosphere. Direct emissions of carbon footprint come from heating and car use. Meanwhile indirect emissions occur during the generation of electricity and the production of good and services. In Kyoto protocol, this main issue had been highlighted and most of the international countries including Malaysia give a support to fight the global warming. According to Tao Gao. Et. al, 2013, the innovative concepts of low-carbon economy, low-carbon city, low-carbon life, carbon trade, carbon tax, means to reduce carbon emissions become the important development strategy of the whole world. After all, many countries managed to provide greenhouse gas reduction policies and successfully reduce their total carbon footprint emission in their country. As Malaysia is concerned about global warming issues, studies in green and sustainable campuses have been done widely and extensively in Malaysia and other countries. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the factor affecting the carbon footprint emission in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Seri Iskandar, Perak in 2014. This had been done by assessing the carbon emission from electricity consumed and the transportation usage by staff, student and