The plastic, cardboard, and paper used in packaging is manufactured in great big emissions-spewing factories, so try to buy items with as little packaging as possible.
It therefore takes more energy to transport, and so entails greater emissions of greenhouse gases, which could be reduced by switching to lighter packaging.Connoisseurs tend to flinch at the notion of drinking wine that comes in a plastic bottle or heaven forbid a box.
Ministers should have been bolder with this scheme so more jobs could have been created and greater emissions reductions achieved".
Much greater emissions savings can be achieved by switching supermarket fridges and freezers over to climate-friendly alternatives.
Although the worst contamination is closer to the plant, the recommendation takes into account the possibility of shifting winds or greater emissions.
Research by British Gas suggests that while improving building regulations to make new homes more eco-friendly will reduce CO2 emissions by 7 per cent by 2020, simple work on existing properties can achieve far greater emissions savings.
Largely as a result of concessions to Japan, the product is a significantly softened version of the Kyoto accord, allowing industrial nations with the greatest emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, to achieve their cuts with greater flexibility.
And by the end of the decade, regulations will be phased out that currently allow medium and large sport utilities and pickups to have greater emissions of airborne pollutants than do cars.
This in turn means that staying below the 2C warming target accepted as the safe limit by policymakers will require far greater emissions reductions than are currently on the table.
The dismal pace of international negotiations – and the prospect of yet more disappointment at the UN Paris conference in December – is why the Guardian has thrown its weight behind a divestment campaign, pressurising moral investors to take a stand against those responsible for the greatest emissions.
