Personal Digital Sustainability Guide

Calculate, understand and reduce the environmental impact of your personal digital life.

Your digital life also leaves its mark.

Technology is part of our daily lives. We use our cell phones, save files in the cloud, send emails, watch videos, participate in social networks, make video calls and use artificial intelligence tools.

All of this helps us, connects us and makes our lives easier. But it also has an environmental impact associated with energy consumption, the use of digital infrastructures, the manufacture of devices and the generation of electronic waste.

With this calculator you can get an indicative estimate of your personal digital impact and discover which habits can have more weight in your daily life.

The goal is not to stop using technology, but to learn how to use it better.

Start calculating your digital impact

Answer a few simple questions about your use of devices, email, cloud storage, streaming, social networks, video calls, video games, artificial intelligence and other digital services.

At the end, the calculator will show you an indicative estimate and a breakdown of the areas that most influence your digital impact.

Use the result as a starting point to reflect, improve your habits and continue learning in our free Personal Digital Sustainability course.

This tool is intended for educational and guidance purposes. The results should not be interpreted as an official measurement, but as an aid to better understand our digital habits and start reducing their impact. Please read the technical report or the "how it is calculated" section for more details on the calculation methods and their uncertainties.

Have you already calculated your digital impact?

Now begins the most important part: learning how to reduce it.

The result of the calculator helps you identify your main areas of improvement. You may find that you can extend the life of your devices, tidy up your cloud better, reduce duplicate files, review your streaming habits, manage email better, or use artificial intelligence more consciously.

Small, everyday changes can become digital EcoGestures. And when those EcoGestures are shared with others, they can multiply their impact.

This approach connects with the philosophy of the Carbon Footprint Partnership: act, share and transform learnings into concrete actions. The Climate Ambassador's Handbook emphasizes precisely that every action, every shared course and every inspired EcoGesture can leave a positive mark on the planet.

Continues with the free course on Personal Digital Sustainability

The calculator is only the first step.

In the free course Personal Digital Sustainability Guide you will learn how to interpret your results, understand the environmental impact of your digital habits and apply concrete actions to reduce it.

The course is designed for citizens, families, students, teachers, volunteers, climate ambassadors, companies and organizations that want to use technology in a more responsible way.

You will learn in a simple and practical way how to improve your relationship with your devices, your data, your cloud, your emails, your digital content and your online tools.

What you will learn in the course

• You will understand what personal digital sustainability is.
• You will identify the main environmental impacts of digital life.
• You will learn how to interpret the result of the calculator.
• You will discover easy-to-apply digital EcoGestures.
• You will create your own personal digital impact reduction plan.
• You will be able to share what you have learned with your family, community, company or organization.

Don't stop with just the calculation. Take the next step and learn how to reduce your digital impact with our free course.