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Every little bit helps. See what your impact is currently, and what you can do to help.
This simple questionnaire asks questions about your food, travel, home, stuff (shopping & entertainment). You receive your carbon footprint in tonnes and a comparison to the UK national average. This is then broken down by category as a percentage contribution to your footprint. There are many different apps that encourage this and provide suggestions and guidance on reducing your score. These vary from purely statistics and information based, to social media sharing and challenges, to green rewards schemes.
Some suggestions are:
Eating less meat and dairy produce
Buying UK made and produced products
Eating seasonally
Buying responsibly sourced, and fair-trade items
Buying second hand or renting tools
Walking to local shops
Reducing your car use
As a Climate Change Officer I have calculated my own carbon footprint using the table below in Excel:
All household expenses are divided by the number of people in the household. Multiply your annual amount by the conversion factor & add them up to receive your carbon total in equivalent tonnes of CO2.
As per the Paris Agreement we should all be aiming for a maximum of 2.3 tonnes CO2e per person annually.
Personal Carbon Footprint - Dr Victoria Richards 2025
Every little bit helps. See what your impact is currently, and what you can do to help.
This simple questionnaire asks questions about your food, travel, home, stuff (shopping & entertainment). You receive your carbon footprint in tonnes and a comparison to the UK national average. This is then broken down by category as a percentage contribution to your footprint. There are many different apps that encourage this and provide suggestions and guidance on reducing your score. These vary from purely statistics and information based, to social media sharing and challenges, to green rewards schemes.
Some suggestions are:
Eating less meat and dairy produce
Buying UK made and produced products
Eating seasonally
Buying responsibly sourced, and fair-trade items
Buying second hand or renting tools
Walking to local shops
Reducing your car use
As a Climate Change Officer I have calculated my own carbon footprint using the table below in Excel:
All household expenses are divided by the number of people in the household. Multiply your annual amount by the conversion factor & add them up to receive your carbon total in equivalent tonnes of CO2.
As per the Paris Agreement we should all be aiming for a maximum of 2.3 tonnes CO2e per person annually.
Personal Carbon Footprint - Dr Victoria Richards 2025
Personal Carbon Footprint - Dr Victoria Richards 2025