Carbon Footprint Tool
Our Carbon Footprint App
A carbon footprint tool enables someone to assess how much their own behaviour and choices impact the environment through carbon emissions.
Our ecological footprint tool will use a series of questions and calculations to determine the amount of carbon that is emitted through your activities. This will involve inputting information about lifestyle habits, such as how much energy you use at home, how often and how you travel, and what kind of food you eat.
Once your carbon footprint has been calculated, the tool will be able to provide you with recommendations for reducing your environmental impact. This might include suggestions for reducing energy consumption, using public transportation, or choosing more sustainable food options.
It will also show how, by working with others in your community, your personal actions can have a much wider and more significant result.
The ‘average’ Irish person’s carbon footprint breakdown
The graph shows the average values for the national statistics of kgCO2 eq emissions from consumer behaviour. It excludes CO2 eq emissions from production.
Our per-person CO2 eq footprint is more than FOUR TIMES the level that is sustainable. The sustainable value of 2.3 tonnes of CO2 per person is the amount of CO2 we can emit worldwide and stay within a 1.5°C global warming future.
Our 11,026 kgs of CO2 eq emissions would need 787 trees to offset. As a nation, we would need 3,043,034,237 trees, taking up approximately 50% of the country’s available land.
What were the origins of Ireland’s CO2eq emissions in 2024?
This table and chart are based on SEAI 2024 data[1] – the chart combines two data sets from the SEAI report[2].
Non-energy agriculture is the greatest share, most of this is from methane emissions from ruminants (cattle and sheep) and a smaller proportion from pig and fowl manure.
[1] https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/co2
[2] It brings together https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/co2/All-GHG.csv and https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/co2/CO2-by-sector.csv