Our unique calculator enables users to measure their carbon footprint before taking positive steps to reduce their CO² emissions. Additionally, users can offset any CO² emissions that cannot yet be easily reduced or avoided by donating or purchasing carbon credits that enable tree planting.

The My Forest Child carbon calculator measures your footprint in four areas: electricity, transport, gas, and coal/petrol/wood. We make it easy for you to measure your individual or collective footprint simply by entering some details about your habits and choices. 

My Forest Child supports their struggle. Some of the money we raise is used to support local children and youth to design, implement and lead their own “Red Alert” campaigns to increase awareness and action on the climate and nature crisis.

Users can download certificates to display their carbon footprint – and by how much they have reduced or offset their CO² emissions. Show others you care about the planet and encourage others to follow your example!

WHY REDUCE AND OFFSET CO2 EMISSIONS?

For many decades, the world’s lifestyles and economic models have collectively increased wealth and living standards for millions of people. But these changes have come at a terrible cost to the planet, threatening millions of lives and the future of entire societies.

Driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels, CO² levels in our atmosphere are now at their highest point in over 800,000 years – trapping heat in the atmosphere and disrupting Earth’s climate. As a result, billions of people face more severe heatwaves, droughts, floods, and storms, as well as rising sea levels.

This climate crisis, combined with harmful practices such as pollution and deforestation, has contributed to the global destruction of nature, the mass extinction of wildlife and the collapse of ecosystems.

Positive changes such as using more public transport, eating less meat, walking or cycling more often, avoiding single-use plastic items, and being more efficient in our use of energy and other resources, can all make a difference.

But with time running out, the world cannot realistically reduce its CO² emissions fast enough to prevent a global climate catastrophe.

So, we also need to capture and store CO² already in Earth’s atmosphere to offset the emissions that our homes and workplaces cannot easily reduce or eliminate. Planting trees is one of the most cost effective ways of doing this, with multiple benefits for people and wildlife if it is done correctly.