Your handprint is your positive impact on the climate — the emissions you avoid or remove, not the ones you cause. Installing a heat pump in your home instead of an oil boiler, taking a train instead of a flight, the trees you planted: every one counts, for you, your club, your district and Rotary worldwide. Enter your handprint actions below — it takes a few minutes — and update them once a year.
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Europe
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 7–8 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: ≈ 11,000 km
Typical flying: ≈ 1,000 km (one medium return flight)
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
North America
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 14–15 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: ≈ 21,000 km (≈13,500 mi)
Typical flying: ≈ 2,000 km (≈1,3000 mi)
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
South and Central America, Caribbean
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 3 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: ≈ 7,500 km
Typical flying: ≈ 300 km on average
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
Asia
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 4–5 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: often below 5,000 km
Typical flying: ≈ 200 km — most people never fly
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
Oceania
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 13–14 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: ≈ 12,000 km
Typical flying: ≈ 2,000 km
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
Africa
Footprint per person per year: ≈ 1 t CO₂e
Typical car driving: low — many households have no car
Typical flying: in most cases no flying
typical rounded values; sources: UN, EDGAR, ODYSSEE
These are typical averages for your region. If your own behaviour is below them — you drive less, fly less, or switched to an electric car — that difference is your handprint. Also if you have changed your behaviour and reduced flying and car driving, you can count that as your handprint. Enter it below.
We focus on the actions with the highest climate impact for individuals — how you move, what you eat, how you power your home. We also added topics where Task Forces with Rotarians are active.
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