Introduction

Your Info

Accommodation

Event

Food

Travel

Biodiversity

Summary

Climate Impact Calculator for Travel, Holidays and Group Events

Best viewed on desktop computer screen. A mobile version is also available.

This tool helps you measure and understand the environmental impact of your travel and events.

When it comes to the environment and natural resources, we regularly take out more than what we give back. Yet we rely on these natural resources for the highlights of our travel experience.

These natural and environmental impacts are climate polluting greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, but also ecosystem pollution to water and land from sewage, plastics and farming for food.

Our GABI (Greenhouse gas and Biodiversity Impact) calculator, measures the impact harm to the climate and biodiversity and then calculates the financial cost to the environment. This financial cost is the amount that should be provided as a 'Return to Nature' and 'Investment Value' to fund improvements, promote change and regenerate the environment. We have found that both the venue and the guests appreciate the information and the ability to make a difference by giving a bit back.

The harm costs form the "environmental impact charge" per guest, or per group cover of a particular event. This charge is called the "Planet Tip", a discretionary element to enable businesses to give back to the environment and for localities to improve their overall sustainability.

YOUR INFORMATION

Contact Name:

Your Post/Zip Code

Your Email Contact (required)

Contact Telephone

Country you are based:

HOTEL & ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

SOURCE	SCOPE 1 and 2 (+ Water and Waste)	UNITS
	Location of Hotel/Accommodation (required)	Country
	Guests total number of people booked overnight at hotels	Number
	Hotel Room Nights Total number of hotel room nights (number of rooms X number of nights)	Nights
Sub-TOTAL Accommodation Kg CO2e

EVENT INFORMATION

SOURCE	SCOPE 1 and 2 (+ Water and Waste)	UNITS
	Event Venue Name or Hotel (required) (If you held an event, put the name of the event venue here otherwise add the name of your overnight hotel)
	Number of Attendees if held, the number of people attending the event, otherwise type 0	Number
	Event Hours if held the Total number of hours across all days, otherwise type 0	Hours
Sub-TOTAL Event Kg CO2e

GHG CO2e Conversion & Benchmark Data, Scope 1, 2 and Water (Cornell University - International Hotels and Events)

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Food and beverage are a part of the emissions for holidays and events. We have based our impacts analysis of food emissions on international academic sources.

You may wonder why we have focused on a small number of foods and have not included food travel miles. We have selected the highest environmentally impacting foods and beverages because we are trying to encourage choices that are less impactful to nature. The food travel distance has not been requested because, based on scientific review, it is what you eat rather than its journey to you, that has the most climate and biodiversity impact.

SOURCE	SCOPE	UNITS
	SCOPE-3 Beef	Portions
	SCOPE-3 Chocolate	Portions
	SCOPE-3 Lamb	Portions
	SCOPE-3 Coffee	Cups
	SCOPE-3 Prawns	Portions
	SCOPE-3 Cheese	Portions
Sub-TOTAL Food & Beverage Kg CO2e

GUEST TRAVEL

Air travel is often the largest contributor to your holiday and event emissions; contributing over 60% of climate pollution for long haul destinations

SOURCE	SCOPE	UNITS	INPUT AMOUNT	Kg CO2e
	SCOPE-3 Guest Travel Car Distance	Km
	SCOPE-3 Guest Travel Coach Distance	Km

Air Travel is the largest contributor to event or conference climate impacts.

For data entry, a single one-way ticket is equivalent to one flight. If a booking is for return flights for two people that is counted as 4 individual flights.

SOURCE	SCOPE	UNITS
	SCOPE-3 Short Haul Flights (under 3 hours)	Economy
	SCOPE-3 Short Haul Flights (under 3 hours)	Business+
	SCOPE-3 Medium Haul Flights (3 to 6 hours)	Economy
	SCOPE-3 Medium Haul Flights (3 to 6 hours)	Business+
	SCOPE-3 Long Haul Flights (6 to 12 hours)	Economy
	SCOPE-3 Long Haul Flights (6 to 12 hours)	Business+
Sub-TOTAL Guest Travel Kg CO2e

BIODIVERSITY HARM IMPACT COSTS

The biodiversity harm cost of a product is often higher than the CO2 harm cost. For instance, a single 330ml plastic bottle impacts the marine environment at $0.20(US) a bottle, while that same bottle is only $0.0002 in CO2 impact.

SOURCE	SCOPE	UNITS	INPUT AMOUNT
	Biodiversity Solid Plastic Waste count the number of single use plastic items in the room then times by number of days staying	Item
	Biodiversity Housekeeping Guest consumables Detergents	Litres	Not Applicable for this version
	Biodiversity Arable & Livestock Farming (waste and pesticides)	Kilo	Not Applicable for this version
Sub-TOTAL Biodiversity Impact Cost $

CALCULATE YOUR PLANET IMPACT

Once you have entered your data, please click the CALCULATE and ANALYSE button below to analyse and financially cost your climate and biodiversity impact.

Summary of Provided Inputs

Input Field	Value	Units
Summary will appear here once data is entered.

Data collected on:

GABI - GREENHOUSE GAS AND BIODIVERSITY IMPACT calculator

Climate Impact Calculator for Travel, Holidays and Group Events

Summary of Provided Inputs

CO2e Conversion and Life Cycle Assessment Data sources: