Aptech Lab Launches #WhatsYourNumber, Nepal's First Nationwide Climate Literacy Movement

Climate change is often described in numbers too large to feel real: rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, and gigatonnes of emissions. For most people, the crisis stays abstract, something happening at a scale far removed from daily life. Aptech Lab is betting that the way to close that gap is with a much smaller, much more personal number.

Today, the Kathmandu-based climate innovation and education organization announced #WhatsYourNumber, a nationwide climate awareness campaign asking every Nepali a single question: What is your climate number?

A number, not a lecture!

A "climate number" is an estimate of a person's annual carbon footprint—the greenhouse gas emissions generated by everyday choices around transportation, electricity, food, shopping, waste, and travel. Rather than opening with warnings about the planet, the campaign opens with a mirror: a way for individuals to see their own impact clearly, the same way a scale, a blood pressure reading, or a bank balance shows where things stand before a plan is made.

"You cannot improve what you do not measure," reads the campaign's founding idea, and that logic is now built into a tool anyone in Nepal can use in minutes.

Nepal Climate Check-Up: the tool behind the movement

At the center of the campaign is Nepal Climate Check-Up, described as Nepal's first bilingual carbon footprint calculator built specifically around Nepali lifestyles. In a short session, users can:

2027, Target Year

30,000 climate-conscious Nepalis, i.e., 0.1% of Nepal's population.

1st Bilingual Calculator In Nepal

Why start with 30,000

Aptech Lab's stated goal is modest by design: 30,000 climate-conscious Nepalis by the end of 2027, a fraction of the national population. The organization argues that movements rarely begin with millions—they begin with a small, committed group willing to lead. A single informed person, the thinking goes, can influence a household, a classroom, a workplace, or a community, and that is how climate literacy compounds outward.

"Once people understand their own carbon footprint, climate change stops being a distant global issue. It becomes a personal journey, one where every small improvement matters."

#WhatsYourNumber is designed as an ongoing movement rather than a one-time tool launch. Planned activities include climate literacy workshops for schools and universities, corporate climate awareness programs, a Climate Ambassador Program, interactive exhibitions and public kiosks, storytelling and digital campaigns, and youth-focused STEAM education, alongside partnerships with businesses, NGOs, media houses, and government agencies.

An open invitation

Aptech Lab is inviting a wide range of participants into the campaign: schools and universities looking to bring climate education into classrooms; businesses pursuing employee engagement and ESG goals; NGOs and development partners working on community outreach; government bodies and municipalities seeking citizen engagement tools; and volunteers, interns, and researchers across climate science, design, data, communications, and policy.

The organization is also seeking funding partners, corporate and CSR sponsors, research collaborators, media partners, and technology partners to help scale the initiative nationally.

Get involved

Aptech Lab is calling on individuals, schools, businesses, and organizations across Nepal to take their first Climate Check-Up and join the movement. Climate action, the campaign argues, does not begin with complicated technology or global negotiations—it begins with one simple question, answered honestly.

Take the first step

Know your number!

Find out at Nepal Climate Check-Up at www.aptechlab.com.np and follow #WhatsYourNumber to join Nepal's climate-awareness movement.