Carbon footprint
Ask your bookkeeper for a report on your electricity, gas and waste expenses, so you know your starting point. Ask for the figures to be put into Excel each month, and get Excel to generate a chart so you can see the trends and anomalies over time at a glance. It should go up in the winter and down in the summer.
Working out your carbon footprint is very simple with your utilities bills to hand. The conversion factors change over time, so see here for the latest: https://tinyurl.com/4fnu8jv9. It converts your utilities bills into carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) in kilos or tonnes.
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