What can I do?

Clearly, reducing your carbon footprint helps – key “carbon footprint” into any search engine. Emitting carbon slower buys time, which we will certainly need.

But to solve the problem in the long term, we need to reduce net emissions to almost zero. You can’t do this on your own, no matter how heroic a consumer you are.

So the most important thing you can do is make sure your government recognises the importance of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions in climate policy. Not all measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the short term will necessarily help reduce cumulative carbon dioxide emissions overall.

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