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Sustainability 2009, 1, 302-318; doi:10.3390/su1020302 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Article A Methodological Proposal for Corporate Carbon Footprint and Its Application to a Wine-Producing Company in Galicia, Spain Adolfo Carballo Penela 1,*, María do Carme García-Negro 1 and Juan Luís Doménech Quesada 2 1 Fisheries Economics and Natural Resources Research Group-USC, Facultade de CC Económicas e Empresariais, Av. Burgo de las Nacións s/n, Santiago de Compostela, CP. 15782, A Coruña- Galicia, Spain; E-mail: maricarme.garcia.negro@usc.es 2 Port of Gijón, c/Claudio Alvargonzález, 32; 33290 Gijón, Asturias, Spain; E-Mail: jdomenech@puertogijón.es * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: adolfo.carballo@usc.es; Tel.: +34-981-563100 Ext. 11649; Fax: +34-981-547036 Received: 22 April 2009 / Accepted: 11 June 2009 / Published: 16 June 2009 Abstract: Corporate carbon footprint (CCFP) is one of the most widely used indicators to synthesise environmental impacts on a corporate scale. We present a methodological proposal for CCFP calculation on the basis of the “method composed of financial accounts” abbreviated as MC3, considering the Spanish version “metodo compuesto de las cuentas contables”. The main objective is to describe how this method and the main outputs obtained work. This latter task is fulfilled with a practical case study, where we estimate the carbon footprint of a wine-producing company for the yea