Calculate your CO2 emissions at the start of the New Year (using the online calculator link below). Once you know what your footprint is, reflect on the year ahead and think about how you can start to change your default settings to reduce your footprint in the coming months – as Portsmouth Diocese goes Generous.

We’ve all got one – a carbon footprint – our own personal measure of how much carbon dioxide we create, an individual invisible record of how much we contribute to climate change.

Our personal emissions of greenhouse gases are changing the climate – every time we burn coal, oil or gas for energy. More than 40 per cent of CO2 emissions in the UK come directly from what we do as individuals – heating our homes, turning on the lights, driving our cars.

But knowledge is power – when we know how and why we create the carbon dioxide we do, then we also throw a little light on how we might create less of the stuff.

And the UK government is making it easy with a simple to use carbon footprint online measuring thing. You can do it for yourself or you can do it for the household in which you live. It’s easy, takes just a few minutes.

Go Generous here by clicking where it says ‘Calculate your carbon footprint’.

Related links
actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html