Example climate project
Clean water · Uganda
New wells reduce the need to boil water, which protects the forest and cuts emissions.
Climate footprint: how your habits affect the climate
Your climate footprint, more often called your carbon footprint, measures the impact your everyday habits have on the climate. According to the IPCC, limiting warming to 1.5 °C needs rapid and deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions this decade. Every reduction counts, and the first step is knowing where your own emissions come from.
Climate calculator: test your climate impact in 5 minutes
With the ClimateHero climate calculator you answer questions about how you live, travel and consume. Based on your answers, it estimates all your greenhouse gas emissions and your climate footprint in tonnes of CO₂e, and shows what you already do well and which changes would make the biggest difference. The calculator works for the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, the Philippines, India and many other countries.
If you'd like to look beyond the climate, try our environmental impact calculator.
What you can do for the climate, inside and beyond your footprint
Cutting your own carbon footprint is a great place to start: fewer flights you could avoid, more trips on foot, by bike or by public transport, renewable energy at home and less beef on your plate.
Your impact doesn't stop there, though. Talking about it with family and friends, suggesting changes at work or school, and backing climate initiatives where you live all multiply what you do on your own.
Want to go further? With a monthly subscription, you fund Gold Standard certified climate projects that cut emissions equal to twice what you can't avoid yet. On the results page you can include everyone in your household.