Register your setting
Create your school profile in minutes. Multiple staff members can be added — Sustainability Leads, Business Managers, Headteachers.
v2 · in build · launching 2027–28
Measure what your school is actually putting into the air.
Count Your Carbon is the UK’s free, full-scope carbon footprint calculator for nurseries, schools and colleges. Version 2 brings the whole journey — measurement, reporting and a real decarbonisation plan — into one platform.
ByEco-Schools·Keep Britain Tidy·PNZ Advisory
St. Mary’s Primary, North Yorkshire — tracked since February 2024.
Award-winning carbon calculator✦Climate Action Plan ready✦Aligned to the DfE strategy✦Free for every UK education setting✦Independently verified by PNZ Advisory✦Award-winning carbon calculator✦Climate Action Plan ready✦Aligned to the DfE strategy✦Free for every UK education setting✦Independently verified by PNZ Advisory✦
5,000+
Schools signed up to v1
4,000+
Footprint reports completed
50%
Target emissions cut by 2030
100%
Free for UK education settings
The journey
From the first kWh to a plan you can act on.
V1 helped 4,000 settings produce a footprint. V2 takes them the rest of the way — into measurable, year-on-year reduction.
Enter your operational data
A guided journey by emissions category. Save and resume. Pre-fill from last year. Inline validation against PNZ Advisory's ranges.
See your footprint, clearly
A visual dashboard of total emissions, breakdowns by category, benchmarks against similar settings and historic trends.
Build a decarbonisation plan
Translate insight into action. Create, manage and download a Climate Action Plan that meets the DfE's expectations.
Built for everyone in the chain
Four roles. One platform.
Schools, colleges & nurseries
Register, calculate, report and plan — in one place.
Multi-academy trusts & LAs
Group dashboards across every setting you oversee.
Keep Britain Tidy admins
Manage users, content, reporting and platform-wide insight.
PNZ Advisory specialists
Maintain emissions factors, benchmarks, validation ranges.
What’s new in v2
A rebuild, not a refresh.
Planning, in the platform
Climate Action Plans live alongside your footprint. Update, version and download.
Group reporting that holds up
Filterable dashboards for MATs, local authorities and faith groups.
A configurable carbon engine
PNZ Advisory's methodology versioned and auditable, with reproducible outputs.
WCAG 2.2 AA throughout
Designed for the staff who actually fill it in — on any device.
Take the first step
Your baseline is the most important number you’ll measure this year.
Register today on v1 — your data carries over to v2 at launch.
