Smart Guide to Climate Change

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Using scientific research and data, we break down the most effective strategies each of us can take to shrink our carbon footprint.

Where you invest your savings or put your pension can have a surprising impact on the environment (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images)

How your money can hurt the climate

By Jocelyn Timperley

Air-conditioning units on a wall (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld/ Getty Images)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

How your fridge is warming the planet

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Controlling radiators to only heat the rooms that are in use is a good way of conserving energy (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

The smart way to stay warm this winter

By Laura Cole

The amount of water we use in our homes can make a big contribution to our carbon footprint (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

The hidden cost of your daily water use

By Christine Ro

In many countries even short journeys that could be easily made by foot or by bike are taken in a car (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

Why we need to walk more

By Jocelyn Timperley

A map of the Earth being sewn by machines (Credit: Alamy/Javier Hirschfeld)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

Why fashion is worse than flying

By Christine Ro

Individual messages, emails and internet searches to not produce much of a carbon footprint, but billions of them add up quickly (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

The surprising cost of being online

By Sarah Griffiths

Smart Guide to Climate Change

Why your bin is a climate problem

By Kelly Oakes

Some people are choosing to go on "flight diets" to reduce the number of times they use aircraft to travel (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)

Smart Guide to Climate Change

Should you go on a 'flight diet'?

By Jocelyn Timperley

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