As we all know, climate change is one of the major threats to our way of life and we are beginning to see it’s effects ever more frequently. Be it in freak weather such as hurricane Katrina to the accelerated melting of the polar ice caps, the evidence is clear that we need to act.

Offsetting your carbon footprint combined with an effort to reduce as much as you can yourself such as switching off lights when you leave the room to riding a bike instead of a car wherever possible has been proven to reduce the effect that we have on the environment.

This calculator has been built using the AMEE engine and draws in part on the UK government's Act on Co2 calculator.