Arts Carbon

Carbon emissions calculator for streaming media

Calculate the carbon emissions of your video streaming, podcasts, and conferencing activity.

Calculate emissions

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Results 0kg Carbon dioxide (CO₂)

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About this project

This project is developed by Vijay Mathew and Axess Lab and is based on the article Streaming in the Just Transition: A Producer’s Guide to Measuring, Budgeting, and Lowering the Carbon Emissions of Livestreams and Video Conferences by Vijay Mathew. The calculations are based on Version 3 of the Website Carbon Calculator.

This service is an open-source project and you can help make it better! See the code on GitLab.

Project Values & Design

Accessibility for all is a human right, and that's why we developed this website to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at level AA. The site was audited and approved by the accessibility experts at Axess Lab.

This website's design and deployment minimizes energy usage, data transfer, and hardware usage. It therefore emits very little CO2 and wears down less machines. View the reports from Pingdom and Website Carbon Calculator.

This website is very low cost for the end user to access. View the report from What Does My Website Cost?.

Arts Carbon is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0. Page updated 2022-09-28.