
Count Your Carbon is on hiatus until September 15th
We’re making some updates! Start preparing to complete your 2025-26 calculation now.
Count Your Carbon was created in response to the urgent climate challenges we face, with a clear mission: to help educational settings reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Aligned with the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy – which calls for all schools to appoint a dedicated Sustainability Lead and to have a Climate Action Plan by 2025 – Count Your Carbon offers tools and guidance to help educational settings meet these expectations and drive meaningful change across the sector.Â
Starting your school’s carbon reduction journey can be daunting, but with Count Your Carbon, it’s easy! Once registered, Count Your Carbon guides you through calculating your carbon footprint, reviewing your data, and creating a decarbonisation plan. To begin, you’ll need to gather data about eleven operational areas and input this into the calculator. Then, you’ll receive a detailed footprint report and action planning resources, equipping you with the information you need to put a clear plan in place to reduce your setting’s emissions. Â
Count Your Carbon not only helping individual settings, but the entire UK education sector, to decarbonise. The more settings that join, the stronger our dataset becomes – giving us a clearer picture of the sector’s carbon impact and helping drive real change.Â
If you’re part of a local authority, multi-academy trust, faith group, or other school grouping, we can share data with you to help you take a strategic, informed approach to decarbonisation across your settings.Â
We’re making some updates! Start preparing to complete your 2025-26 calculation now.
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Count Your Carbon will be temporarily unavailable from Friday 15th August to Monday 15th September whilst we make some essential updates. Â