Climate change is a current phenomenon and represents one of the most important environmental, social and economic threats to the planet and is defined as a significant and lasting change in local and global weather patterns caused by natural or human-caused global warming. The construction of works related to earthworks such as paving of streets, parking lots, roads, highways, dams, canals, among others, generate pollution because they use heavy machinery which is a major consumer of non-renewable fossil fuels that are transformed into emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The present work, takes as a case study the paving of a subdivision in the City of Obregon Sonora (Mexico) to determine the carbon footprint in Kg of CO2eq/m2 generated in the machinery, using the methodology of the carbon footprint from the quantities of work of the construction process, the selection and hourly performance of the appropriate equipment, the determination of the volumes of fuel used and the emission factor in Kg-CO2eq for the fuel used. The results obtained were 165,742.02 Kg-CO2eq in a surface of 128,049.59 m2 of paving, equivalent to 1.29 Kg-CO2eq/m2.

Climate change is one of the world's major problems and concerns the entire human population as its effects are global in scope. Climate change is driven by the greenhouse effect, which is generated by greenhouse gases (GHG). The construction industry is important in the development of a country, both economically and culturally, since it is through it that the infrastructure needs required for a nation's economic and social activities are met. Urban environments are composed of various structures that favor economic, social and any other activities of interest within the existing population; such urban environment is mainly connected by a system that is constituted by asphalt pavements of flexible or rigid type. This project analyzes the environmental impacts generated during the construction process of an asphalt pavement corresponding to the Real de Sevilla III subdivision, located in Obregon City, Sonora, Mexico, applying the Simapro 9.0 Software, obtaining a result of 12.618 Kg CO2 eq/m2 and 1,140, 863.493 Kg-CO2/fractionation generated by its main materials and activities and equipment consumptions.