Reduce your carbon footprint
Why do we have a carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is represented by the amount of CO₂ produced by our actions, such as transportation, consumption and energy usage. Everyday actions such as driving a car, having a hot shower or using electricity contribute to your overall individual carbon footprint as these activities create greenhouse gases. As CO₂ is the gas which contributes most to global warming, it's imperative for us to reduce our carbon footprints using carbon dioxide removal technology.
But perhaps you've never considered what your carbon footprint is? Well, now you can find out what the average daily carbon footprint of an individual living in your country is using our new tool below.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and remove your emissions
Multiple sources say that we need to reduce our emissions as much as humanly possible in order to halt the current course of climate change. Reusing and recycling can help with this goal, as the waste and manufacture of paper and plastic releases more gases into our atmosphere. But in order to rebalance our climate, we must also start the work of removing historic and excess CO₂ from the air.
Reduce
Try to use your car less and walk or cycle wherever possible.
Reuse
Try avoiding single-use plastic as well as paper products and repair existing items.
Recycle
You can recycle almost all products, just collect your waste and take a trip to the recycling center.
Remove
Using our carbon footprint tool, you can calculate your emissions over time and remove them from the air.
Calculate your carbon footprint
Use the tool below to check out the average daily carbon footprint of a person living in your country. Once you know your carbon footprint, start reducing your emissions or remove them altogether for a day, month, or year.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is the CO₂ footprint calculated?
The data is based on consumer-adjusted data when available, otherwise on the non-adjusted data. CO₂ emissions are typically measured on the basis of ‘production’. This accounting method – which is sometimes referred to as ‘territorial’ emissions – is used when countries report their emissions, and set targets domestically and internationally. In addition to the commonly reported production-based emissions statisticians also calculate ‘consumption-based’ emissions. These emissions are adjusted for trade. Read more on consumer based emissions
How does Climeworks compare to traditional carbon offsets?
Traditional carbon offsets are typically a trade of avoided emissions: someone reduces emissions on behalf of the offset buyer who pays for the other party’s emissions reduction (= avoidance certificates). Thereby, the offset buyer continues emitting. If done transparently, this trade will, at best, lead to short-term emission reductions, but not to the zero or negative emissions we need to achieve to bring global warming under control.
In contrast, Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal service physically removes emissions from the air, which actively lowers the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. The CO₂ is locked away and remains permanently stored for thousands of years. Climeworks’ solution is therefore radically different from trading avoided emissions.
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How it works
Technology to remove CO₂
Climeworks develops, builds and operates direct air capture (DAC) machines to physically capture CO₂ directly from the air. Our machines consist of modular CO₂ collectors which selectively capture carbon dioxide in a two-step process.
Climeworks' direct air capture plant, Orca, in Iceland
Turning CO₂ into stone
Once the CO₂ has been captured by Climeworks' Orca plant, it can be transferred to our CO₂ storage partner Carbfix, to be turned into stone; a natural occurrence where CO₂ reacts with basalt rock. The CO₂ then stays deep underground safely and permanently, no longer contributing to global warming.
Basalt rock with carbon dioxide captured by Orca
