Use your real DEWA or SEWA bill, your car, your flights and what you eat. ClimateIQ Personal works out your carbon footprint with UAE-specific numbers, then builds you a plan to cut it. Running a business instead? Use ClimateIQ for business.
ClimateIQ Personal uses the same UAE emission factors as ClimateIQ for business, plus published research for diet. Results are estimates of your direct, lifestyle footprint, meant to show where the big levers are, not a certified audit.
| Part of your life | How we count it |
|---|---|
| Electricity | Average of your summer and winter kWh × 12 × your emirate’s grid factor (Dubai 0.40, Abu Dhabi 0.42, Sharjah 0.48, Northern Emirates 0.50 kg CO₂e per kWh), divided by people in your home. |
| District cooling | Monthly bill in AED × 12 × 0.62 kg CO₂e per AED, divided by people in your home. |
| Water | Monthly water × 12 × 1.6 kg CO₂e per m³ (the UAE supply relies heavily on desalination), divided by people in your home. 1 imperial gallon = 0.004546 m³. |
| Car | Petrol 2.31 and diesel 2.68 kg CO₂e per litre. If you give distance instead, 0.17 kg CO₂e per km. Electric cars are counted through your electricity bill. |
| Flights | Each return trip is two one-way flights of about 1,500 km (short), 4,500 km (medium) or 10,000 km (long), at 0.16, 0.20 and 0.24 kg CO₂e per passenger-km. |
| Food | Average daily dietary emissions from Scarborough et al. (2014): 7.19, 5.63 and 4.67 kg CO₂e a day for high, medium and low meat-eaters; 3.91 for fish-eaters; 3.81 for vegetarians; 2.89 for vegans. These come from UK diets; the UAE imports most of its food, so treat them as a guide. |
The comparisons. The 2.5-tonne figure is the per-person lifestyle footprint the Hot or Cool Institute calculates is compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C by 2030. The world and UAE figures are average CO₂ emissions per person from the Global Carbon Budget (2025), which count everything a country emits, including industry, so they are a rough reference rather than a like-for-like match.
The plan. Savings use the same indicative assumptions as ClimateIQ for business: LED lighting saves about 11% of electricity, keeping cooling at 24°C about 4%, smart cooling controls about 14%, low-flow fixtures about 18% of water, and a hybrid or electric car about 65% of fuel emissions. Money saved assumes about 0.44 AED per kWh. When you tick more than one action for the same thing, savings are applied one after another, not added, so they’re never double counted.