Carbon Footprint Calculator

We have created a simple and easy to use tool to enable you to determine your carbon footprint. The calculator was created using the latest up-to-date information and evaluations based on the amount of carbon dioxide produced from certain activities and practises within our lives.

The information was sourced from various locations including the National Greenhouse Accounts (NGA) Factors, which provides yearly updated coefficients for coal fired electricity and gas in Australia. Determining the calculations for flights and vehicles was based on a range of evaluations.

Accurately determining CO2 emissions from our lives is based on our in-depth analysis of average usage from carbon creating activities. From individual to individual, variances occur in the amount of CO2 produced, so it is important to create an accurate and easy to use tool that will easily determine your footprint. For example, many different factors needed to be taken into account when creating the calculator for vehicles, such as the times and type of driving.

The amount of emission produced within your home or business varies depending on which state you live in, the amount of clean energy provided by your state and the type of coal used to generate electricity.

For example, Victoria uses brown coal to produce electricity, whereas black coal produces less carbon dioxide per megawatt hour of electricity generated. So Victorians produce more carbon dioxide for their energy consumption than that of a household or business that utilises black coal fired electricity.

When looking at air travel these variances are just as important to assess. Variance in each flight’s emissions are effected by aircraft weight and winds on takeoff, taxiing times and landing and cruising altitude. All these factors play a major role in the amount of CO2 produced per flight. We also looked at the coefficient from burning aviation fuel at ground level and the issue that large amounts of carbon dioxide are deposited high in the atmosphere, creating ice clouds and a range of other dangerous effects. All this was taken into account when producing a flight coefficient.

Once all the data and variances in CO2 production were collated and assessed, we were able to produce a tool that is an accurate average calculation for vehicle and flights. Electricity and gas is based on the coefficient per kilowatt hour from the National Greenhouse Accounts (NGA) Factors.

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