Trip Carbon Footprint Calculator

1 Trip basics

We'll use this to split shared costs like flights and transfers across your whole group.

2 Flights

Add up all your flight legs — there and back — in km per person, and we'll do the rest. Uses an international per-passenger-km factor, including the extra warming effect of high-altitude emissions.

3 Ground transport & transfers

Airport transfers, game drives, and road travel between destinations. Enter total km for the whole trip. Fuel-consumption defaults for the Victoria Falls / KAZA region, converted to CO2e via the diesel combustion factor.

Each option is a fuel-per-passenger-km rate, so distance is charged per traveler regardless of vehicle type.

4 Activities & excursions

Add each named excursion on your itinerary. Fuel-based defaults for common Victoria Falls / KAZA-region activities — distance and duration are pre-set, you just add what you're doing and how many times.

5 Accommodation & electricity

Driven by the property's grid electricity use, using each country's actual grid carbon intensity. Zambia's hydro-heavy grid is roughly 5× cleaner per kWh than Botswana's coal-heavy grid, so destination genuinely matters here.

6 Meals

What's on the plate matters more than you'd think — a beef-heavy meal is roughly 4× the footprint of a vegan one.

7 Waste

Auto-estimated from trip length. A typical tourist generates ~1.2 kg of landfill waste per day; adjust if you know your trip runs leaner or heavier.