Everything you need to measure your club's footprint
Use the calculator below to build your club's annual carbon footprint, or jump straight to the guidance, data-collection forms and how-to guide that go with it.
Rotary District 9815 · Environmental Award
Club Carbon Calculator
Estimate your club's annual carbon footprint from regular meetings, committee sessions and events — catering, travel, waste, venue power and accommodation — for your Environmental Award submission.
Piloted by Rotary District 9815. If it proves useful here, we'd love to see it grow across Zone 8 — and beyond.
- 1Add your club's regular meetings and one-off events below
- 2See your annual footprint and where it comes from
- 3Get ideas to reduce it, plus the full source data for your submission
Club details
Sets the region used for electricity, waste, accommodation & EV factors belowMeetings & events
Add each recurring meeting type and one-off event, with how often it happens per yearCounts your club's own activities — meetings, events, and their catering, travel, waste, venue power and accommodation. It doesn't include members' personal day-to-day habits outside club activities.
"Save entries file" downloads a working file of what's entered so far — share it with other members adding meetings/events through the year, then use "Import entries" to combine everyone's files (including several at once) into one club total. This is separate from the CSV/Excel downloads below, which are the polished report for your award submission. Tip: delete or rename the example meeting above before saving your file, so it isn't flagged as a possible duplicate when someone combines it with everyone else's.
Annual footprint
Updates live as you fill in activities aboveCO2-e ("carbon dioxide equivalent") rolls every greenhouse gas your club's activities produce into one common, comparable unit — it's why figures below can simply be added together.
By category
Ideas to reduce your footprint
By meeting / event
Double-click a row to jump to and edit that meeting/event above.
| Activity | Per occurrence | Times / yr | Annual (kg CO2-e) | Share |
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Emission factors & references
The exact figure and citation behind every calculation above — always visible and included when you printWhat do these terms mean?
- CO2-e (carbon dioxide equivalent)
- A common unit that lets different greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.) be added together, by converting each to the amount of CO2 that would cause the same warming.
- Emission factor
- The amount of CO2-e produced per unit of an activity — per kWh of electricity, per km travelled, per meal served. Multiplying an activity by its factor gives that activity's emissions.
- Grid emission factor
- How much CO2-e is released generating one kWh of electricity on a given region's power grid. It varies a lot by region, depending on how much of that grid's power comes from coal/gas vs. renewables.
- Scope 2 / Scope 3
- Standard greenhouse-gas accounting categories. Scope 2 covers the direct emissions of generating your electricity; Scope 3 adds the "upstream" emissions of getting that energy to the grid in the first place (extracting and transporting fuel, transmission losses, etc.). This tool's Australian electricity factors include both.
- Radiative forcing (for flights)
- Aircraft warm the climate through more than just their CO2 — contrails and other high-altitude effects add to it. A radiative forcing uplift accounts for that extra effect, which is why a flight's true climate impact reads higher than its CO2 emissions alone.