Furthermore, if target in the Paris Agreement, not least as emissions need to behaviour change can be encouraged among the higher emitting fall by 43% this decade (and even more subsequently) just to sections of society – which again includes most scientists – give us a 50:50 chance of hitting the temperature goal.2 Indeed, this would have a disproportionately large, positive effect on many of the. [...] very early stage of development – such as synthetic fuels – or It is this thinking that has led SGR to put together a set of deployment – such as carbon capture and storage – or have 10 evidence-based targets for ‘1.5°C-compatible living’ – other serious obstacles to use at the required scale – such as aimed initially at scientists, but also at anyone who wants to nuclear power and biofuels. [...] These targets are Many campaign groups – including Scientists for Global summarised below, and we encourage you to sign up for as many Responsibility – continue to argue for major economic and as you can at: www.sgr.org.uk/projects/living-targets political initiatives to be a key element of climate policies – e.g. [...] a fossil fuel treaty and a Green New Deal – but there continues to Deriving the 10 behaviour change targets be considerable political and industrial resistance to these, as the The Hot or Cool Institute (HoCI) estimates that the current UK government’s current lack of interest shows. [...] In addition to the 8.5 tCO2e, the remaining fraction of your carbon footprint – about 3.3 tCO2e per person per year in It is possible to meet this overall target by owning a small petrol the UK – comes from your share of national services and car with low annual mileage – but only if you don’t also clock up infrastructure such as hospitals and the military, which you can many miles by public trans.
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