Cilo - Carbon Counter

Cilo’s easy-to-use footprint tracker lets you see the carbon cost of the products you buy, get personalised reduction tips, and compete with friends and colleagues to achieve your climate goals!

WHY CHOOSE CILO?

We’ll help you reduce your carbon footprint by 8% each year, in line with scientific targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C. Unlike other tools which ask you to pay for questionable offsets or buy from promoted “green” brands, our focus is purely on reduction.

That’s why we built a bespoke database with a unique carbon footprint estimate for 1000s of UK food and drink products. Expansion into travel, energy, and fashion coming later this year.

NOT A UK RESIDENT?

Let us know where you live and we’ll update the data for your region as soon as we can! In the meantime there’s still lots you can learn from the app, so why not give it a try?


FEATURES

• See the carbon cost of the food and drink you buy
• Quickly and easily track your carbon spending
• Get reduction tips based on your spending habits
• Set your carbon budget based on your lifestyle and goals
• Create targets to achieve your net-zero goals
• Learn why some products are better than others
• See a breakdown of your footprint in charts
• Compete with friends and colleagues in our low-carbon leaderboards


CUSTOMER REVIEWS

“I've been using Cilo for a few months now and it's been really helpful. I now have a good understanding of low-carbon products and try to be more considerate when I shop!” - Jess

“I knew meat was bad, but this has given me so much more awareness” - Ben

“I love the leaderboards and competitiveness” - Brogan


SEE PRODUCTS’ CARBON COST
Every food and drink item has a unique carbon footprint based on academic research & industry data. Products are sorted into tiers to help develop your carbon instinct. Estimates for travel, energy, and fashion coming soon!

TRACK CARBON SPENDING
Set a carbon budget based on your lifestyle and goals. Our nutrition tracking-style app makes recording data quick and easy. It takes just two minutes a day - quicker than brushing your teeth!

REDUCE WITH PERSONALISED TIPS
See exactly how much different carbon-saving actions would reduce your climate impact. A 0.6% reduction each month is all that's needed to get to net-zero by 2050. Set a new target each month to achieve your goals!

COMPETE WITH FRIENDS & FAMILY
Get points for tracking your climate impact and setting low-carbon goals. See whose purchases are the best for the planet. Get rewards for topping the community leaderboards!


OUR MISSION

Our goal is to help people reduce their impact on climate change by as much as possible.

We were inspired to build Cilo because of emotions that we encounter every day: we’re worried about climate change, we’d like to help, but we feel powerless. Maybe this is something you can relate to?

The thing is, though, we’re not powerless.

Almost two thirds of global emissions are a direct result of consumer behaviour. That means there's huge potential for us as individuals to have a genuine positive impact on climate change.

The issue is that figuring out how can be confusing and intimidating.

Imagine trying to save up money if none of the products you were buying had a price tag and you didn’t have a bank account to track your spending over time? That’s essentially what we’re facing when trying to reduce our carbon footprint right now.

That’s why we built Cilo.

If you believe in what we’re doing then please download and share our app. And feel free to reach out to us directly if you have any feedback! We can’t get better without it.

For feedback on the app, please email Laurence at laurence.collingwood@cilo.uk.

Or if you have any questions regarding the footprint data, Ryan is your man! ryan.brown@cilo.uk


AND FINALLY..

HOW DO I PRONOUNCE CILO?

Great question, thanks for asking! It’s pronounced with a hard “c” (kee-low). That’s because we track your carbon footprint in carbon kilos, or Cilos!