It is complicated to calculate a company’s footprint with this little detail that we ask for. These calculations are mere estimations of what an average office space would spend if they had the numbers you are inputting in.

As you are probably aware, there are many different calculators and studies trying to measure different aspects of a business operations’ footprint. We have made a compilation of these different results and managed to set averages of usage, and then use these averages to give you a quick reference of about how much your company is contributing to the planet pollution and how much you would need to compensate for it in terms of trees planted.

The absorption of CO2 per mature tree per year is a more static and less debatable number among the community. Nevertheless, the survival rate of a seedling to a mature tree in these kind of projects are not near 100%, so we assume that one in every three trees will get to this point. Likewise, when a tree gets to certain adult age, it reaches its peak point of CO2 absorption, this is why we only count 5 years of full production in our calculation.

If what you are looking for is a detailed study of your footprint we can help you with that but this is not the right tool. Give us a shout and we’ll get you connected to experienced CO2 consultants that will give you a detailed report and suggested actions to take.

Learn more about our sources and calculations here.

As a business owner there are basically two ways to help the planet: reduce your company’s footprint and invest in the planet’s future.

Reduce your footprint: We keep a blog where we suggest business owners the best practices and changes they can do in general to make their CO2 consumption smaller. Have a look at some of these actions to take in our Tips & Thoughts section.

Invest in the planet: As Ecorely we also offer the service of donating to several tree planting initiatives around the world over the Eden Project network. Our goal is to make it easy for companies to have this contribution automated and also give tools for them to display this contribution, such as our Digital Contributor Profile. You can start taking action for as low as 10 USD (around 22 trees planted), contribute now.

Not very accurate, as mentioned on the first question, this is merely an estimation based on the global/country consumption averages and the activity selected.

If what you are looking for is a detailed study of your footprint we can help you with that but this is not the right tool. Give us a shout and we’ll get you connected to experienced CO2 consultants that will give you a detailed report and suggested actions to take.