Five apps that help you reduce your carbon footprint

Every year 36 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are being produced leading to global warming. In order to change the situation the contribution of every individual is required.

There are already so many things we need to take care of in our everyday life. Paying attention to every little detail can therefore be quite overwhelming. In this post we will introduce you to five different apps that help you keep track of your carbon footprint and give you suggestions on how you can improve it or how you can offset your carbon emissions.

Earth Hero

Is an app that let’s you calculate your carbon footprint and shows you how it compares to your country’s average. It equally gives you a variety of possible actions that you could choose from. Those vary in their level of difficulty to implement in your everyday life and should help you become more environmentally friendly. By adding actions to your to do list you can set yourself challenges and view your environmental impact by tracking your development on these tasks.

Capture

Similar to Earth Hero is Capture. This app helps you record your daily activities, calculate your carbon footprint and reduce your environmental impact. In order to offset the carbon emissions you produced it suggests you different projects you could invest even just a small amount of money into.

Klima

This app is a carbon emission offsetting app for those who have the financial means to invest into social and environmental projects. Their focus lies especially on planting trees, promoting solar energy, and providing clean cookstoves to people of developing countries. The web version equally provides you with a blog and plenty of information about how to live more sustainably.

Co2nsensus

The app is developed both for individuals as well as businesses. It gives them the possibility to calculate their carbon footprint for different activities and suggests them suitable projects that they could invest in to offset the carbon emissions they produced through a specific activity.

Ecologi

An app that supports you with offsetting and keeping track of your carbon emissions. It makes you plant trees, support renewable energy projects, and helps you reduce your carbon footprint. This is why it provides you with the feature of setting yourself personal goals and shows you your development when acting on them.

Have fun with trying all the apps out and finding the one that best suits your circumstances and needs.

Learn more about carbon emissions, greenhouse gases and how you can reduce them in our other blog posts:

• Do we really have to worry about the rising temperatures?

• Here is how you can reduce your carbon footprint

Source:

Ritchie, H. and Roser, M., "CO2 emissions," Our World in Data, 2020, https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions, accessed 08 November 2021.

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