Footprint Calculator

The first step to lowering carbon emissions is to understand your carbon footprint. This tool helps you to estimate your household CO₂ emissions and shows how different lifestyle choices, household features and new technologies affect the size of your footprint.

Efficient features such as compact fluorescent light bulbs and insulation can reduce household energy consumption and associated CO₂ emissions. When purchasing new appliances look out for the Energy Star label in the USA or Grade A labels in Europe that indicate high efficiency.

Features such as air conditioning or a heated swimming pool will increase your household energy consumption and CO₂ emissions.

By using energy wisely in your home you can make significant reductions to CO₂ emissions. See the reduction that can be made to your household footprint by selecting some of the options opposite.

New and renewable technologies can save money, reduce energy and reduce CO₂. Investigate what reductions you could make by installing some of the technologies listed. You may need specialist advice to assess which technologies are suitable for your home.

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Use the menu to add information about your vehicles and flights to see how they impact your CO₂ emissions.

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