Place Based Carbon Calculator (PBCC)

A reminder of this tool, as we move past some important tipping points.

While our carbon emissions are dwarfed by those of particular industries and the activities of distant countries, the cumulative impact of our own personal activities does have some impact on our local environments, and on the atmosphere as a whole. 

Cutting back also makes financial sense, through energy savings and reductions in weekly spending on commodities which may be seen as luxuries or non-essentials.

One way to explore your own personal carbon footprint is to use a calculator such as the one here.

PBCC is a free tool which estimates the per-person carbon footprint for every Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in England. LSOAs are small statistical areas with a population of about 1,500 - 3,000. It draws on a wide range of data and research to give a representative view of how carbon footprints vary across the country. 

PBCC is intended to help communities and policy makers understand where their carbon footprints come from and what we need to do to reduce them.

Use the map to zoom to your area of interest then click on an LSOA for more details.

LSOA - Lower Super Output Area.

Here is some data for Ely.

There is also a link here with the idea of the 15 minute neighbourhood.

You can choose to add centroids for each LSOA.

Click on this to get 15 minute mapping for movement from that point using a range of transport options.

As with all such tools, the data used are currently from the 2011 Census - we are still waiting for most of the results of the 2021 Census.