There are lots of “Carbon Calculators”. Why is the Government producing another one?
It’s true; there are a lot of calculators out there. But the problem is that the majority of them seem to only focus on a few key areas of your lifestyle, just flying for example, so you don’t always get a truly accurate answer. We felt that there was a role for a calculator that used data and factors that have been recognised and verified across government departments. We are making the underlying “calculating engine” available to other parties as “open source” software, so that they can use it to power their own calculators and help to make their results more consistent across the range of calculators available.
