What does a tonne of CO₂ actually look like?

TreeMonkey translates. Slide in your project — or any amount of carbon — and watch it turn into trees, car miles, flights and homes. Every number carries its source.

1 Pick a project

Floor area 120 m²

40500

2 What that means

Estimated upfront embodied carbon

60 tCO₂e

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1 How much CO₂?

Carbon amount 12.4 tCO₂e

0.1 t100 t

…or type it exactly

Or start from something familiar:

2 That's equivalent to…

🌳 Trees are a nice picture, not a get-out. The real win is never emitting the carbon in the first place — reduce first, offset last. See the energy hierarchy →

1 What did you do?

Activity

Miles driven 1000 miles

110,000

2 That emits…

Carbon footprint

0.26 tCO₂e

1 Compare two scenarios

Scenario A

— 0

0 tCO₂e/yr

Scenario B

— 0