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Green Tools

There are many different climate action tools available which can bring to life the environmental impact we have on our planet.

This Green Tools Directory will help you to find the ones that are most relevant to you and your students to initiate long-term behaviour change and understand the impact that each one of us and our actions can have.

Air Quality Map

This website shows the latest near-real-time air quality data across England.

Ancient Earth Globe

An interactive globe which allows you to see how Earth has changed over 750million years.

Biffa Waste Clock

Enter your month and year of birth below to see how much waste you have created in your life.

Biodiversity Stripes

Biodiversity stripes are a, visual, color-coded graphic representing the decline in nature over time, from 1970 onwards.

Build Your Own Earth

A curiosity driven app exploring Earth's climate.

Carbon In Context

Convert greenhouse gas emissions into familiar terms.

Climate Action Cards

Check to see how your local council are doing in the race to net zero!

Climate Crisis

Play the game to understand what really makes a difference to the environment we live in.

CO2 Of Everything

Find out the carbon footprint of everyday products and activities.

Energy Dashboard

Real‑time electricity generation, demand, and carbon intensity data for Great Britain.

Energy Town

Build and manage a thriving city, ensuring a sustainable energy future until the year 2050.

Explore Food

An easy to use nutritional analysis tool.

Food Miles Calculator

Measure how far food has travelled before it reaches the consumer.

Green Buzz

Match your natural strengths to the green career options available to you.

My 2050

Find your pathway to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050

NASA Climate Legacies

Create your own climate stripes to see how different generations experience climate change.

Nature Park Map

View habitats, wildlife observations, surveys, shade maps and combine your observations with other maps such as underlying geology.

Ocean Clean Up

Find out the fate of floating plastic 20 years from now.

Climate Explorer

Explore local climate information and understand how global climate change may affect your area.

RiverCraft

Students can explore and understand the key areas of the Environment Agency’s work through three games themed around flood mitigation, climate change, and the local environment.

School's Climate Explorer

A simple, map‑based tool to support conversations about heat and flood vulnerability for schools.

Show Your Stripes

A visual representation of global warming, where each colored stripe represents the average temperature of a single year.

The Carbon Map

Use an animated, distorted, shaded, interactive map to help understand how different countries fit into the climate change picture.

The Climate Game

Can you reach net zero by 2050? See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change.

The Solutions Project

Explore the interactive map to see what 100% renewable energy could look like where you live in the year 2050.

The World Counts

Real-time data on the state of the planet - everything from climate change, toxic waste, child labor and slavery.

World Atlas of Desertification

Identify the areas in greatest need of people-focused investment in trees.

Tree Equity Score

Identify the areas in greatest need of people-focused investment in trees.

Water Footprint Tool

Providing insight into how water is appropriated for human uses and the impacts resulting from those uses.

Carbon Footprint Calculators

Carbon Footprint

Calculating your carbon footprint is the essential first step to taking meaningful climate action.

United Nations Carbon Offset Platform

Offsetting compensates for the emissions that cannot be avoided.

Website Carbon

The orignal website carbon calculator.

Website Emissions

What is the impact of your website? Check your carbon footprint.

WWF Footprint Calculator

How big is your environmental footprint?