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And it also would sum consumed energy from other requests it made. Or perhaps send it in a separate header.
I don't know where to get this number or if it's even possible.
I don't think adding 20 bytes to every response, which are never read in practice, will improve the energy efficiency of the internet. Not to be mean, there's just a lot of stuff in most responses that effectively nothing acts on.
There's a whole mini-industry around carbon accounting but (A) it's very hard to estimate accurately, (B) it will be gamed like any other metric, and (C) energy is good. We should focus on making energy cleaner and cheaper so that people can use it without guilt.
If they were serious about aiming for "carbon neutral" the plane would never take off in the first place!
I admit this is a very simplistic view and likely I just don't understand the bigger picture about economics of carbon offsetting.