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What's your personal carbon footprint?

Find out in under 5 minutes — and discover your top five ways to reduce it.

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This calculator runs entirely in your browser. We do not collect, store or transmit any of your data. Nothing you enter here is ever sent to our servers.

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Home energyelectricity & heating
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Transportcars, commute & trains
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Food & drinkdiet, dining & shopping
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Flightsholidays & destinations
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Shoppingfashion & deliveries
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Financebank & pension impact
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Based on official DEFRA 2025 UK GHG Conversion Factors. Results are normalised per person and compared to the UK average of 12.7 tCO₂e/year.

Takes about 4–5 minutes

🏠 Your Household

We'll use this to split shared energy costs fairly between everyone in your home.

👥How many people live in your home?
Just me
2 people
3 people
4 people
5 people
6+
🏡What type of home do you live in?
Flat / apartment
Terraced house
Semi-detached
Detached house
Bungalow
🛏How many bedrooms?
1 bed
2 beds
3 beds
4 beds
5+ beds

⚡ Home Energy

Your home energy use is typically one of your biggest sources of emissions.

🔋What's your electricity situation?
Standard grid supply
Renewable tariff
Onsite renewables, e.g. solar panels
💡 Renewable tariffs dramatically reduce your electricity footprint. Solar panels on a standard tariff still reduce your net use.
🔥How is your home heated?
Mains gas boiler
LPG (bottled gas)
Heating oil / kerosene
Electric boiler
Air-source heat pump
Ground-source heat pump
Biomass / wood
No central heating
🧱How well insulated is your home?
Draughty & cold Average Excellent / PassivHaus
Decent — could be better
💷Approximate monthly electricity bill per household
£20/mo£250/mo
£70/mo

If you don't pay bills separately (e.g. renting), £50–80/month is typical for a 2-bed household.

💷Approximate monthly heating bill per household
£0/mo£350/mo
£80/mo

For gas, the typical UK household spends £60–120/month. Heat pump users often see lower annual bills.

🔢Last month's energy consumption optional

If you have your energy bills to hand, enter your actual kWh figures for a more accurate result. We automatically adjust for seasonal variation based on the current month, so a summer reading won't be over-extrapolated to the full year. Otherwise, click "Use UK averages" to skip.

UK average: ~250–350 kWh/month for a 2–3 bed home.

UK average: ~400–900 kWh gas/month depending on season.

🚗 Getting Around

Your own personal miles driven — not your household's total.

🚘Do you own or regularly use a car, van or motorbike?
Yes
No
🚆How do you mainly get to work / study?
Car
Train
Tube/tram
Bus
Walk/cycle
Work from home

🥦 Food & Drink

What you eat is one of the largest and most changeable parts of your footprint.

🍖How would you describe your diet?
High meat — meat with most meals daily
Average — meat a few times per week
Low meat / flexitarian — once or twice a week
Vegetarian — no meat or fish
Vegan — no animal products
🛒Weekly food & drink spend per person
£15/wk£150/wk
£50/wk

Include your share of the household grocery shop + any drinks, snacks and online food orders. UK average is around £35–45/person/week.

🥛How much dairy do you consume? (milk, cheese, yoghurt, butter)
A lot
Average
A little
None / plant-based only
♻️Do you use a food waste or composting bin?
Yes — food waste bin or compost
No — goes in general waste
🍓How often do you buy imported produce out of season?

e.g. strawberries in January, asparagus in autumn, exotic tropical fruits year-round

Rarely — buy mostly seasonal & local
Sometimes — a mix
Often — whatever I fancy year-round
🍽️How often do you eat out or order takeaway?
Rarely
1–2× a month
About once a week
2–3× a week
How many cups of coffee or tea per day? per person
0 cups/day5+ cups/day
2 cups per day

A takeaway latte carries roughly 0.3 kg CO₂e. Home-made filter coffee is about 0.15 kg CO₂e per cup.

🗑️How do you handle waste & recycling?
Thorough recycler — sort everything
Average — recycle most things
Minimal recycling

✈️ Flights & Holidays

Flights are often the single biggest lever in a personal carbon footprint. We include the full radiative forcing effect (as recommended by DEFRA).

🗓️How many return flights did you take in the past year?
0 flights
1
2
3
4
5+

📦 Shopping & Digital Life

The "stuff" we buy and how we use technology both have a surprisingly significant footprint.

📬How many online delivery parcels do you receive per month?
1 per month
2–3 per month
4–6 per month
7+ per month

Each parcel delivery generates roughly 0.5 kg CO₂e on average.

👗How would you describe your approach to clothes & fashion?
Fast fashion — I buy new clothes frequently, and often discard them quickly
Average — mix of new and second-hand, update wardrobe seasonally
Conscious shopper — mostly buy quality, repair & wear longer, some second-hand
Mostly second-hand, vintage or zero new clothing
🤖How often do you use AI tools? (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot…)
Never
Occasionally (a few times/week)
Daily (multiple queries/day)
Heavy user (many sessions/day)

Each AI query uses roughly 0.002–0.01 kg CO₂e — small individually, but the sector's growth is significant.

🏦 Your Money

The money sitting in your bank and pension is being invested — often in fossil fuels. These "financed emissions" are reported separately from your day-to-day footprint.

💡 Why does this matter? Research by Make My Money Matter found that a pension invested in a standard fund generates more CO₂ per year than flying and driving combined. Moving your money to green institutions is one of the highest-impact things you can do.
🏦Who do you bank with? (main current account)

Rankings based on fossil fuel financing data from Banking on Climate Chaos 2024 & Make My Money Matter research.

💰Approximate total savings & current account balance
£0£100,000+
£10,000

Your savings amplify financed emissions — a larger pot means more money being lent to businesses (including fossil fuel companies).

📈Do you have a workplace or personal pension?
Yes
No / not sure
Prefer not to say
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📊 Your Carbon Footprint

Estimated annual footprint, normalised per person.

Your estimated annual footprint
tonnes CO₂e per person per year

How you compare

Your footprint vs key benchmarks (tonnes CO₂e per person per year)

1.5°C compatible — 2.5 tCO₂e Global average — 4.7 tCO₂e UK average — 12.7 tCO₂e You

Your footprint by category

Your footprint breakdown

You

UK Average — 12.7 tCO₂e

Your footprint vs UK average — by category

💳 Your Financed Emissions (separate)

Your bank & pension are responsible for an estimated
— tCO₂e/yr

These are the emissions from investments your money is passively funding. Switching to a green bank or sustainable pension fund can have a huge impact — sustainable funds can perform just as well or even outperform standard funds, but please consult your pension provider.

🏆 Your Top Big & Easy Wins

Based on your results, these are the highest-impact actions you can take — ranked by the carbon and money savings available to you.

📚 Emission factors & sources
  • DEFRA 2025 UK GHG Conversion Factors — used for: electricity (0.177 kgCO₂e/kWh), natural gas (0.183 kgCO₂e/kWh gross CV), LPG (0.215 kgCO₂e/kWh), heating oil (0.247 kgCO₂e/kWh), passenger vehicles (by size & fuel type), flights (with radiative forcing), rail, bus, hotel stays, waste disposal.
  • Diet footprints: Poore & Nemecek (2018) "Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers", Science 360(6392). UK adaptations from WRAP Food Surplus & Waste Report 2023.
  • Coffee lifecycle emissions: ~0.30 kgCO₂e per takeaway cup. Source: Multiple LCA studies (Killian et al.).
  • Online delivery emissions: ~0.50 kgCO₂e per parcel. Source: Last Mile Delivery Footprint Study 2022.
  • Fashion footprint: WRAP, "Textiles and the Environment" 2023; Quantis, "Measuring Fashion" 2018.
  • AI query emissions: 0.002–0.01 kgCO₂e per query. Source: IEA (2024) "Energy and AI"; Goldman Sachs Research (2024).
  • Banking financed emissions: Make My Money Matter; Banking on Climate Chaos 2024 (BankFWD). Per £1,000 in savings per year.
  • Pension financed emissions: Make My Money Matter "Rewiring Retirement" 2021; Carbon Tracker. Per £1,000 in pension value per year.
  • UK average footprint: DESNZ/ONS, "UK's Carbon Footprint" 2023 provisional data. 12.7 tCO₂e per person per year.
  • 1.5°C per-capita carbon budget: IPCC AR6 WG III Chapter 5. ~2.5 tCO₂e/person/year by 2030.
  • Accommodation adjustments: Extended from DEFRA 2025 UK hotel factor (10.4 kgCO₂e/room/night) with type-based adjustments from published accommodation benchmarks.
Disclaimer: This calculator is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. All cost savings shown are estimates based on average UK figures and may vary significantly depending on your circumstances.