Calculate your carbon footprint

Welcome to the MSN Carbon Emissions Calculator

The handy tool on the left will help you quickly and easily calculate the carbon dioxide emissions that you are directly responsible for.

 

Few people have been concerned about carbon dioxide emissions. CO2 is a colourless gas - we do not see it and so we tend not to worry about it. But if it were say, purple, we would have seen the sky change colour during our lifetimes - that is the extent of the increase in emissions over the past few decades.

 

Enter your data in the Calculator and see how purple the sky becomes...

MSN special report: the environment

Children playing in front of wind turbines

The MSN News environment special report features all the latest news views and opinions on the key environmental issues effecting us today.

 

You'll also find articles and features from our own editors as well as a round up of all that's green on MSN UK.

 

Environment homepage

The trouble with offsetting

A plane takes off from Heathrow airport (© Tim Ockenden/PA/EMPICS)

Is the offsetting of carbon emissions a viable solution or are we simply ignoring the inevitable?

 

The trouble with offsetting