Here are some easy choices people can make in their day-to-day lives that can reduce one’s carbon footprint — many of which require little or no extra cost.
, which can provide energy-saving devices and suggest insulation and energy efficiency improvements to the home.
"Some electric vehicles are initially responsible for more emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles because of manufacturing impacts, but they make up for it after three years," it said. "These emissions directly contribute to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Reduce pollution by keeping your tires at the proper pressure," the agency states on its website.The authoritative UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned that delaying cuts in heat-trapping carbon emissions "will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
The report called out how children who may still be alive in the year 2100 could experience four times more climate extremes than they do now — even with only a few more tenths of a degree of warming over today's heat.