Guided Course · Lesson 5 of 8
Your Carbon Footprint
Calculate and interpret your own rough carbon footprint.
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Learning objective
Calculate and interpret your own rough carbon footprint.
A carbon footprint adds up the greenhouse gases linked to your transport, electricity and food choices into one rough yearly number, usually in tonnes of CO2-equivalent. The rough global average is about 4.7 tonnes per person per year — transport, flights and generator use usually move the number the most.
📝 Worksheet — Lesson 5
My estimated footprint: tonnes CO2e/year
Which single input (transport, flights, electricity, generator, or diet) moved your number the most when you changed it?
Write one realistic change you could make this month, and re-run the calculator with it.