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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Doing Your Bit
Dave Reay
GHGonline.orgCopyright © 2003
Current Public Thinking
• More than 50% of us already recycle paper.• More than 40% of us recycle glass.• Around 40% of us have cut down on our household
electricity or gas use and/or deliberately not used their car.
• Together with road traffic and air pollution, climate change is the issue we think will be of most concern to us in 20 years time. (Source: Office for National Statistics 2002)
What can we do?
Reduction strategies for each of us
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Cumulative lifetime greenhouse gas emissions and associatedcosts for two theoretical Londoners.
Greenhouse Gas (tonnes) Cost (£ sterling)
Mr Prescott 1,251 131,000
Mr Bellamy 370 48,845
‘“We have a responsibility to take action, but it is also in our
own interests to do so. Measures to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions can be good for the economy, for businesses and for
our communities.”
John Prescott
David Bellamy
“Start the day by using a tooth mug - that saves 10 litres of water. It makes you think
environment and save energy all the rest of the day.”
‘The greatest things are accomplished by individual
people, not by committees or companies’
Alfred A. Montapert
Global Warming Web Resources
(updated October 2003)
Organisation sites•United Nations Framework Convention (http://www.unfccc.de/)•Greenhouse Gas Inventory Database (http://ghg.unfccc.int/)•UNFCCC Kyoto thermometer (http://unfccc.int/resource/kpthermo.html)•The Tyndall Centre (http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/welcome.html)
News and General Resource Sites•GreenHouse Gas Online www.GHGonline.org•The Guardian on Global Warming (http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/0,7368,395145,00.html)•New Scientist on Climate Change (http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/climate/)•UNFCCC News Links (http://unfccc.int/press/index.shtml)
Individual Greenhouse Gas Emission related sites•Carbon calculator (http://www.bestfootforward.com/carbonlife.htm)•Future forests (http://www.futureforests.com/index2.html)•Cool communities (http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/coolcommunities/index.html)•Kyoto begins at home (http://www.nature.com/nsu/010823/010823-9.html)•How to go green (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4090098,00.html)
