Carbon Calculators
Below is a selection of different types of calculators. The main thing is to choose one and use only that one so you can measure your carbon reduction over time.
Carbon Calculators
Below is a selection of different types of calculators. The main thing is to choose one and use only that one so you can measure your carbon reduction over time.
About Carbon Calculators
There are many on-line calculators that measure your carbon footprint they are mainly based on algorithms using average consumption figures, sometimes modified by inputting more precise data, from energy bills for example. However, they do not all work in the same way, or for the same purpose. You need to look carefully at what they are measuring as well as how they measure.
Below is a selection of different types of calculators. The main thing is to choose one and use only that one so you can measure your carbon reduction over time.
Some calculators are designed to work out the cost of your carbon emissions from a holiday, flight etc, and invite you to donate money to offset your carbon. This means you donate to a project somewhere in the world that captures carbon. This could be planting trees, installing solar panels and so on. The problem is that this industry is unregulated and there is some evidence that not all the projects are effective.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/what-is-carbon-offsetting/
https://www.footprintcalculator.org
Although US based this site uses UN Country data. It calculates an ecological footprint, telling you how many Earths resources would be needed if everyone lived as you do. They are the organisation that run Earth Overshoot Day, this year it was 22.08.2020.
https://www.carbonindependent.org/index.html
This is very easy to use and has a very informative website. It is UK based and can be filled in with bands or with actual figures from bills etc. There is a step plan to reduce personal footprints by 10% per annum over the next 10 years.
https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
A UK based company that primarily advises businesses to be carbon neutral hosts this. What carbon cannot be cut down is offset. On the site are free carbon calculators, one for individuals and one for businesses. The Individuals’ one is easy to use and has a section that deals with secondary carbon as a result of consumption. It has links to helpful tips on reducing carbon.
http://ecologicalfootprint.com/
This one is very easy to use and covers ecological footprint as well as Carbon. It is on the Centre for Alternative Technology web-site.