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While it’s easy to point to our homes or travelling as potentially the largest contributors to our carbon footprints, our smaller everyday choices could also have an impact.
App available to customers aged 11+ using compatible iOS and Android devices and an international mobile number in specific countries.
We've teamed up with carbon footprint experts, Cogo, to let you calculate your carbon footprint in the Shostra Bank website. Our carbon footprint tracker will calculate your estimated footprint plus we'll share tips that could help you reduce it too.
Carbon Footprint Tracker is within the Spending feature in our app. Spending available to customers aged 16+ who have a Personal or Premier account with us.
The average monthly carbon footprint in the is approximately 1,000kgs. To help reduce the impacts of climate change, scientists recommend that by 2030 we should aim to reduce our carbon footprints to around 180kgs (Cogo, 2021).
Our goal is to be a leading bank in addressing the climate challenge. We're reducing our carbon footprint, and with our carbon footprint tracker we want to help you reduce yours too.
We'll calculate your carbon footprint by analysing your monthly transactions and match them to their industry category (e.g. grocery, energy, transport).
Each transaction amount is multiplied by an emissions factor per industry category to calculate the carbon footprint of that purchase.
For example, if you spend £15 on a dress at an average high-street retailer, that could equate to a footprint of 16kg CO2. The same £15 spent on a dress from a charity shop could have a lower footprint of around 4kg CO2.
Your carbon footprint calculation is a best estimate as we can only see your whole transaction amount, and not your basket level data.
For example, if you spend £50 on grocery shopping, we will not know the individual items you have purchased.
The number you see when you land on our carbon tracker in our app is the best estimate total carbon footprint of all your transactions, for your previous month.
While it’s easy to point to our homes or travelling as potentially the largest contributors to our carbon footprints, our smaller everyday choices could also have an impact.