🌍Event Carbon Calculator

Calculate the climate impact of your scientific conference

ℹ️ About this calculator

This tool helps scientific conferences and events understand and reduce their environmental impact.

This calculator provides estimates based on public data.

👥 Event Overview

How many people are attending your event?

This helps calculate per-person impact

🍽️ Meals & Refreshments

During the entire event

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Meals impact: 0 kg

🚄 Transportation

Add each journey separately

Transport impact: 0 kg

🍲How are meals calculated?

Each meal type is assigned a fixed carbon factor.

Meal type Factor (kg CO₂e per meal)

Most of these factors come from notre-environnement.gouv.fr.

These figures should be regarded as indicative estimates rather than universal constants.

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🧭How is travel distance calculated?

For each journey, you only need to enter the straight-line distance.

Mode Correction applied to the straight-line distance Emission factor (g CO₂e per passenger-km)
Emissions of a journey = adjusted distance × emission factor of the mode (per passenger-km) × 2 if round trip

Ferry is not covered by the Labos1point5 methodology.

Source: Labos1point5 — travel simulator

Additional computation details: GitHub: README.md

🎯 A few orders of magnitude

Putting everyday choices in perspective

The carbon-neutrality target is 2 tonnes CO₂e per person per year.

Where do these figures come from?

🙋 Frequently Asked Questions

Why is train so much lower than plane?

Can I use this for events outside Europe?

Does this include Scope 3 emissions (supply chain)?

Why use this target?