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Count Your Carbon is the nation’s first free, full-scope carbon footprint calculator, built for – and in collaboration with – nurseries, schools and colleges. It supports educational settings to calculate, understand, reduce and track carbon emissions.

Join thousands of settings already taking climate action.  

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Why Count Your Carbon?

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. 

How does it work?

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.  

Who is it for?

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. 

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. 

Latest News

Count Your Carbon is on hiatus until September 15th

We’re making some updates! Start preparing to complete your 2025-26 calculation now.

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Summer hiatus – complete your 24-25 calculation now

Count Your Carbon will be temporarily unavailable from Friday 15th August to Monday 15th September whilst we make some essential updates.  

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