Calculate Your Carbon Footprint in kg CO2: A Simple Guide

Your carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide you contribute to the earth's atmosphere per year. This calculation is possible for an individual, a household, or a business, and it is used as a tool for making environmentally responsible decisions that will lower the overall carbon emissions total. You can measure carbon footprints in short tons, metric tons or pounds of CO2 emitted, and these measurements are converted easily to kilograms.

Things You'll Need

• Carbon footprint calculator
• Regular calculator

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Instructions

• 1

  Calculate your carbon footprint.

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  Determine whether your result is in tons, metric tons or pounds of carbon dioxide emitted.

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  Multiply the total number of short tons by 907.18474, which is the amount of kilograms in one short ton. Multiply the number of metric tons by 1000, if the footprint is measured in metric tons. Multiply the number of pounds by 0.45359237, if the carbon footprint is calculated in pounds.