Ecological transition

Estimate your carbon and water footprints with “Our Climate Gestures”!

Publié le 10 octobre 2024 - Mise à jour le 16 décembre 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Car use, meat consumption, purchase of digital equipment, air travel, water consumption... 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.

Carbon footprint, water footprint: what is it?

The carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activities.

The water footprint measures the total amount of water used to produce the goods and services we consume. It does not take into account domestic consumption (shower, toilet, kitchen, watering), it refers to the invisible water needed to grow our food, make our clothes and produce energy.

Calculating these 2 footprints is complementary to promote a more sustainable management of natural resources.

How does the calculator work?

The calculator helps to identify uses that contribute most to climate change and choose actions the most effective to reduce its impact.

5 topics are covered during the simulation: transport, food, housing, miscellaneous and societal services. Each category has a dozen questions about your profile and practices: family composition, food types, modes of transportation used, types of holidays chosen, heating method, etc. The questions allow you to take a look at your annual emissions.

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

The tool then helps you to 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.

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%).

Example :

  • 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.

https://nosgestesclimat.fr/?mtm_campaign=Services-publicsFaites the test to calculate your carbon footprint.

FYI  

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.

Please note

The simulator is also available in English and Spanish.

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