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What is the Carbon Calculator?
It is a free tool that calculates the approximate volume of emissions produced by a Club’ s event. It was designed specifically for motorsport to help measure and manage emissions.
Why collect the data?
Everything starts with the baseline data. Motorsport in the UK needs that to be able to show improvements and meet our emissions reduction requirements. If we cannot do that, ultimately some motorsport events will not be able to go ahead – they will just be banned.
Who collects it?
Some clubs have a dedicated environmental officer filling out the calculations on behalf of the competitors, officials and everyone involved with an event. Some clubs use a Motorsport UK environmental volunteer, who has specialist expertise and can be invited to an event specifically to support the data collection. Other clubs may choose to integrate it into an existing role, such as Clerk of the Course. If you are not sure about how to fill in the data, Motorsport UK has prepopulated some of the fields with what we call‘ ready reckoners’ which are assumptions based on a‘ standard’ event and are made to make it easier for Clubs and members who may be struggling with any particular data point.”
How is the data collected?
Depending on the type of event, there can be up to 30 different questions to answer, many of which are very easy to answer – such as how many competitors are there. Some require more detailed research, such as how far participants have travelled to participate in the event.
Everyone collects the data differently. On the Motorsport UK website, here is a travel survey template, which consists of just five questions. One of the data points we need is the average mileage of a participant, so some people collect specific mileage, and some collect postcodes then work out the mileage themselves. A lot of people ask whether the data is anonymous, and it is. Motorsport UK does not keep any personal information on the calculator whatsoever. Someone providing a postcode will not be connected to that postcode – it is just used to work out the mileage travelled. Clubs and members can collect the data in different ways, but everyone should be using the same questions or data sets. One Club introduced the data collection at the noise test station; others may use marshals working on the car parks to collect spectator information. It might look different event to event, but that is because different people are making it work in different ways that make most sense to them.
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