Your carbon footprint is how much carbon dioxide you send into the atmosphere – the smaller your footprint, the better it is for the planet.

The average British person’s carbon footprint is 50 times bigger than that of the average person in Bangladesh!

Saving energy will cut carbon dioxide and make your carbon footprint smaller.

A boy in Kenya uses a small solar panel to produce energy

Turning the heating down by just one degree saves 240kg of carbon dioxide a year. It would take 8 trees to soak up this amount of carbon dioxide!

An average home has 12 electrical appliances and gadgets on standby. That energy adds to your carbon footprint. Turn them off – and save money too!

Did you know that if you fly to faraway places, like Florida, you give out about 1 tonne of carbon dioxide each flight?

Short car journeys send out more than 2kg of carbon dioxide per journey. So being driven to school and back in a school year gives out around 760kg of carbon dioxide!