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 – 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 decarbonisation 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 is 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
Ahead of Count Your Carbon going live for the 2026-27 academic year, download our updated Data Collection Sheet and get started on gathering your data for this year’s carbon footprint report. Â
Eco-Schools with Keep Britain Tidy are happy to present our inaugural Count Your Carbon statistics report – the first of its kind to comprehensively analyse the carbon emissions from schools in England.
Find out more about how to compare your report for 2025-26 to those previously completed.