Ecological transition

Estimate your carbon footprint with “Our Climate Gestures”!

Publié le 10 octobre 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Car use, meat consumption, purchase of digital equipment, air travel... Would you like to know the impact of your practices on the environment? To assess your footprint and identify ways to reduce it, the Agence de la transition écologique (Ademe) has set up “Our Climate Gestures”, a personalized calculator that allows you to assess your individual carbon and water footprint in 10 minutes.

My fingerprint

5 themes are addressed during the simulation that is offered to you: transport, food, housing, various and societal services. Each category has a dozen questions about your profile and practices: family composition, types of food, modes of transport used, types of holidays chosen, heating method, etc.

The questions allow you to take a look at your annual emissions.

My actions

Depending on your answers, you get a result in tons of CO2e per year.

Your daily water footprint is also calculated by the simulator. Unlike household water, it measures the total amount of water used to produce the goods and services you consume.

The calculator then helps you identify uses that contribute most to climate change and to choose effective actions to reduce your impact.

You can select the ones that interest you and discard those that seem too difficult to implement at this stage. Some actions require additional questions.

For each action, the calculator tells you:

  • why this action is virtuous;
  • the impact on your result if you take this action: e.g. - 56 kg C02e (1%).

Examples of proposed actions include:

  • Replace gas boiler with heat pump.
  • Move to zero waste.
  • Eat mainly local products.
  • Replace coffee with tea.
  • Paste a stop pub on his mailbox.

Broadcast Simulator

Finally, you can share the questionnaire and form a group with family or friends to compare your results. It is also possible to subscribe to thematic newsletters to go further and be accompanied in time.

For companies, communities, associations or festivals, a dedicated campaign can be set up to get anonymous feedback from respondents and raise awareness of the topic.

Take the test to calculate your carbon footprint.

Please note

The simulator is also available in English and Spanish.

Additional topics

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