What are some useful environment footprint calculators?

Question

There seem to be many online carbon / ecological / emissions / environment footprint calculators. What are some useful ones?

Answer 1

Here are some calculators that can be used globally to calculate the environmental footprint of people, items, activities and even countries or the world!

For calculators that can be used by businesses, see ‌“What Are Some Useful Environment Footprint Calculators for Businesses?” (OneSharedEarth, 2020).

Calculator Type	Inputs	Outputs	Reference	Notes
Individual ecological footprint calculator	Food, housing, transportation	Number of Earths used & your personal Earth overshoot day	“How Many Planets Does It Take to Sustain Your Lifestyle?” (Footprintcalculator.org, 2019)	Needs email address or Facebook account to use
‌UN household carbon footprint calculator	Household, transport, lifestyle	Annual CO2 for household and comparison with home country & world average	“United Nations Online Platform for Voluntary Cancellation of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)” (Climateneutralnow.org, 2018)
Food climate change calculator	Food item, consumption per week	Your consumption's annual greenhouse gas emissions and water & land use, and comparison with similar foods	Stylianou N, Guibourg C and Briggs H, “Climate Change Food Calculator: What’s Your Diet’s Carbon Footprint?” BBC News (2019)
Transport emissions calculator	Drive, walk, cycling, public transit	CO2 equivalent for transport route	“Map My Emissions” (Mapmyemissions.com, 2019)	Uses commercially available tools to find route
Flight emissions calculator	Flight details	CO2 for flight route	“Offset Your Flight Emissions!” (Myclimate.org, 2019)
Cruise emissions calculator	Cruise details	CO2 for cruise	“Offset Your Cruise Emissions!” (Myclimate.org, 2019)
Vegan & vegetarian calculator	Years or months of being vegan or vegetarian	Number of animals, CO2, forest, grain, water saved	“Vegan Calculator - Calculate the Impact of an Animal Product Free Lifestyle” (Vegan Calculator, 2015)
Country environmental footprint calculator		Footprints of carbon, fossil energy, land & water of a nation (total/per capita/GDP) and comparison with other nations	“4 Environmental Footprints” (Carbon Footprint of Nations, 2010)
Global climate change calculator	Select or create a pathway	How the pathway affects global GHG emissions, CO2 emissions & mean temperature change in 2100	“The Global Calculator” (Globalcalculator.org, 2011)	Model of the world's energy, land & food systems to 2050. See example at Plumer B, “This In-Depth Calculator Lets You Play around with Ways to Solve Global Warming” (Vox, 2015)

Answer 2

Here are some environmental footprint calculators aimed at youngsters.

“Park City - Kids Calculator” (Parkcitygreen.org, 2009) is aimed at ages 4-9. It covers lights, entertainment, electricity, getting to places, baths, brushing teeth, recycling & garbage. It gives scores between 0-10 and tips with each question.

“ISCFC: Calculate Your Footprint” (Washington.edu, 2018) by the Inquiry to Student Environmental Action (I2SEA) project is aimed at ages 10-22. It covers home, food, purchases & transportation. It gives the used CO2/year (total & in each category) and compares with the average of the selected home country. Shows the carbon footprint of each answer as you go along.

Answer 3

There's an online software platform that measures land-based greenhouse gas emissions. It's called flintpro (https://flintpro.com/)

The Mullion Group Pty Ltd, 2020

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