How do I work out what my carbon emissions are, and how do I offset them?

Answer 1

Well, I think what you have got to do is consider that allegedly China are putting on line one fossil fuelled power station per week, this is along with India`s expanding industry, along with some 20 odd active volcanoes. I therefore admire your perspicacity.

Answer 2

to work our your carbon emissions are, you will need to take your car to a garage and have them checked. This is usually carried out when you have an mot. My husband works for the AA and is not sure what you mean by offseting them though. Hope this helps

Answer 3

Don't bother!
Here's the truth. We're all screwed, and anything we do NOW is just polishing the brass on the Titanic. If the UK stopped using power TODAY, no petrol, diesel, coal-fired or gas-fired power stations, the planet would give a barely-sudible sigh of relief, and then, inside of two years, the galloping INCREASE of China's carbon consumption rate will completely overhaul and negate the UK's reduction.
China had 5million cars on the road temn years ago. They now have 25million, around the same as the UK. Ten years from now, they may have ten times as many cars, all probably without catalytic-converters, using low-grade, dirty burning petrol. Their 1.4billion population will continue to rise, continue to consume. It's going to get a lot worse. We will all strugle for breath, in a few decades.
And positivley the worst thing you can possibly do for the planet, is to breed and put another destructive, ignorant Homo Sapiens upon it. They breed, y'know. And what do they actually do? At the week-ends, hundreds of thousands travel hundreds (sometimes thousands, in the USA) of miles to watch teams play sports. People in town A drive to town B to do virtually the same job, as their counterpart who lives in town B and commutes to town A.
That's my take of an 'Inconvenient Truth.'
I'm going to enjoy my fast cars, and know at least I didn't breed, and haven't been on a plane for 16 years.

Answer 4

Irrespective of what carbon emissions you may have you cannot 'offset' them in any way......once you have produced the carbon, no matter what you do next, the carbon remains. 'Carbon Offset' is a meaningless term.

Answer 5

most of the carbon emissions on a personal level are the fuel used by your car, a small additional amount is if you use gas for cooking and heating, the other major contribution is the use of electricity, if the power station uses fossil fuels for the production of electricity.
for every kilogram of fuel we use we produce about 3 kilograms of CO2.
to offset this it is possible to plant trees and keep them, so the periodical increase in mass of trees will exceed the amount mass of fuel (not the mass of CO2) since tree mass includes a substantial water mass.
if 1 car uses about 1000 kg of fuel per year, it will require about 2 new trees, that will grow eventually to equal and surpass this mass, every year, to balance that.

Answer 6

u measure your carbon footprint and u can enter shemes to offset emissions

Answer 7

Solve your problem with CO2. Study photosynthesis and plants will take care of u. The more CO2 the bigger they get so the more CO2 they can handle.

Answer 8

go to the carbon trust website. they have lots of stuff there

Answer 9

check out the no. of ordinary bulbs you use and replace them with CFLs (Compact fluorescent lamps). Walk more, drive less.

Answer 10

try this link
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/