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impakt beyond our code.

impaktfull is a small team with a small footprint. We compensate it many times over: every month we plant trees with GoForest, and we restore coral with GoOcean. This page keeps count by itself.

trees planted so far
180
kg CO2 compensated over the trees' lifetime
115,980

Since July 2024, up to November 2026.

Plan

Every month, the same plan

The plan doesn't change: every month 2 trees in each project. Once a year we look back in a blog post. See our impact dashboard at GoFamily

Year

Year by year

Calendar years, like our certificates.

YearTreesCoralCO2 (lifetime)CertificateStatus
202436123,196 kgCertificate done
202578050,258 kgCertificate done
202666of 72 planned042,526 kgof 46,392 kg plannedfollowsin progress

The CO2 figures are what a tree takes up over its lifetime, as GoForest calculates it per project, not what it takes up in one year. Coral restoration protects biodiversity and isn't counted as CO2.

AI

What our AI costs in CO2, and what we compensate.

We work with AI agents every day, often several at once. That uses electricity in data centres, far more than a single chat question. We count it in the worst case, together with everything else impaktfull emits, so we are sure we compensate enough.

Our AI use, worst case
1.3 tonnes a year
The rest of impaktfull, worst case
10 tonnes a year
What we plant in 2026, over the trees’ lifetime
46 tonnes

In the worst case we emit 11.3 tonnes a year. What we plant this year covers that 4 times: 35 tonnes more than we emit.

Our AI use, worst case

Measurements from heavy users of AI coding agents land between 1.3 and 6 kWh a day; the heaviest day measured was about 11 kWh, with several agents in parallel. We count as if every working day is that heaviest day: 11 kWh × 230 working days = 2.5 MWh. At 0.5 kg CO2 per kWh, almost three times the Belgian grid, that is 1.3 tonnes a year. A pessimistic analysis of heavy users lands at the same 1.3 tonnes. For comparison: a single chat question costs about 0.24 Wh.

The rest of impaktfull, worst case

Everything else impaktfull emits, each time counted on the high side.

WhatHow we count itCO2 a year
Laptops, screens and phonesAs if we buy everything new every year. One 16-inch MacBook Pro is up to about 500 kg over its whole life.1.5 tonnes
Servers and hosting5 servers on non-green electricity, 621 kg per server a year.3.1 tonnes
Electricity at the office3,000 kWh at 0.5 kg per kWh, almost three times the Belgian grid (0.18 kg).1.5 tonnes
Shared carsWe have no cars of our own and use Cambio and Poppy. We count 20,000 km at 0.17 kg per km, like an average petrol car.3.4 tonnes
Together9.5 tonnes, rounded up.10 tonnes

Three caveats

  • Timing

    The trees absorb that CO2 over their whole lifetime, 20 to 40 years, not in the year we plant them. That is how GoForest calculates it and how our certificates count it.

  • What is not counted

    Training the models and making the chips are not in these estimates. They are shared by millions of users, so our part is small.

  • Compensating is not avoiding

    The trees have to stay standing to absorb the CO2. That is why we spread over several projects and report every year.

Sources

Blog

ESG on our blog