Carbon footprint
What is the climate change toolkit?
This is a growing knowledge hub for people who want to understand their impact and reduce it meaningfully. From how you heat your home to what ends up in your bin, every decision can bring you closer to a low-carbon lifestyle.
The climate crisis can feel overwhelming, but real change begins at home. By understanding your household's carbon footprint, discovering simple and cost-effective actions, tracking your progress and celebrating your wins, to inspire the community to do the same.
Understanding your carbon footprint
Your carbon footprint is a reflection of the choices you make everyday. Nearly everything we do releases some amount of carbon into the atmosphere, but how much depends on a huge number of factors. Understanding what a carbon footprint measures, and using the available tools to calculate your household emissions helps put into perspective as to why individual action still matters in the bigger picture.
Carbon footprint calculators
There are a number of free online calculators; here are three of them that you could use to calculate your carbon footprint.
- The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) footprint calculator a simple, easy test to estimate your carbon footprint
- Carbon Savvy has three types of calculator on this site from a quick one minute survey to a very in-depth analysis of your carbon footprint
- Carbon Footprint uses calculations based on annual emissions over 12 months (you may need your latest bills for some calculations)
For a quick list of ideas visit our #Do1Thing for climate change page.