Carbon literacy

Today, over 74,000 individuals from over 5,800 organisations
have become Carbon Literate - have you?

Carbon Literacy is “An awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.”

Carbon Literacy is a term used to describe an awareness of climate change, and the climate impacts of mankind’s everyday actions. The term has had occasional use in scientific literature and casual usage but now is almost exclusively associated with The Carbon Literacy Project.

Carbon Literacy is the knowledge and capacity required to create a positive shift in how mankind lives, works and behaves in response to climate change.

Learners who have completed a day’s worth of Carbon Literacy learning can be certified as ‘Carbon Literate’.

Our founder Robin Lyons, often states that Carbon Literacy training is essential to create a shared baseline of understanding that informs cumulative, meaningful change instead of that one Green Champion banging their head against the professional wall! If we are truly in a state of climate emergency, carbon literacy should be seen as having similar importance to diversity and inclusivity training, indeed they are all intimately interconnected.