Understand your results
Direct Emissions
Your direct emission is the CO2 that results from your activities such as flying, driving, heating your home, producing and moving your food. However you are responsible for almost as much CO2 in indirect emissions.
Indirect Emissions
Every part of your consuming lifestyle has a carbon cost. Every single CD, newspaper, mobile phone, pair of shoes etc. that you buy has an impact. However, it would be impossible to ask you about every single item you've purchased – it would take too long and you probably wouldn't be able to remember. However it is possible to estimate your emissions from the rest of your consumption, if we have a broad idea of your level of consumption. The Carbon Gym looks at some of your other answers and uses these to make an estimate of your general purchasing and consumption, and then attributes your indirect emissions accordingly.
Is that fair?
It's an estimate. There are other ways of working it out. Consumption is of course very closely related to income so it's possible to estimate indirect emissions from your income. In other calculators the Resurgence calculator factors in income.
Infrastructure Share
Various government institutions emit large amounts of CO2 providing services that we all use or benefit from. For example, there are emissions resulting from running hospitals, schools, the civil service, the military and maintaining all sorts of infrastructure at a national level. Whether or not you use these, want them or agree with them, the emissions are a result of services provided for you by the government. These emissions are divided evenly between the UK population. That's why your Infrastructure share never changes, no matter what answers you enter into the calculator.