Carbon Calculator
Estimate the carbon footprint of your shipment and offset the emissions with a verified project.
Welcome to the Peters & May Carbon Calculator. This tool helps you calculate the estimated carbon footprint of your shipments*. Please enter the approximate weight of your shipment, the mode of transport and distance. After calculating the estimated carbon footprint, you can proceed to purchase carbon credits to offset the emissions from your shipment from Ecologi.
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Enter cargo weight
Enter the approximate weight of your shipment in kilograms.
Shipping more than 5 tonnes? Type the exact figure — the slider tops out at 5,000kg for fine control.
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Transport & distance
How is the cargo moving, and how far?
Sea distance helper
1 nautical mile = 1.852 km. Or look up port-to-port distance on the Sea Distances Calculator.
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Emissions summary
Here's how we calculated your shipment's footprint.
0 0 tCO2
Carbon offsetting compensates for these emissions by funding projects that remove or avoid an equivalent amount of CO2 elsewhere.
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Offset your emissions
Choose a verified project. Peters & May places the order with Ecologi on your behalf.
Offset amount
Minimum purchase: 1 tCO2
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Review & submit
Check the details, then tell us how to reach you.
Contact information
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This calculator uses average values for the relevant mode from the UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting: Conversion Factors 2023. It is a good-faith estimate and may not capture every element of a shipment’s emissions. The sea-distances.org calculator is not affiliated with Peters & May.
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