'People are keen to play their part, but actually they're really confused about what to do.' Ahead of COP26 Professor Becky Willis Bankfieldbecky tells us how we can help the UK get to net zero (and what it even means). Read our new article👇🌍
There’s been a lot of talk about ‘net zero’ ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. It’s even just been added to the to the Oxford English Dictionary, along with eco-anxiety and global heating.
“We know that it can be done, there are solutions. But it means quite a few changes to our lives… What we've learned is that people are keen to play their part, but actually they're really confused about what to do.”Pearl Hassan told Woman’s Hour she didn’t know much about climate change until she joined a local citizens jury in Leeds, aimed at reducing the city’s carbon footprint.
But how easy is it to make the change? A listener called Liz got in touch to say “I'm prepared to do anything required but I'm feeling frustrated. We wanted to fix solar panels but couldn’t find a firm with an audit trail that showed that slave labour wasn't used in the production process.
“Draft proofing a chimney is going to make a huge difference to your warmth,” adds Aneaka, who suggests putting special bags, balloons or ‘chimney sheep’ up an unused chimney as one cheap way to stop heat escaping.“Another area is transport,” says Becky, “so we need to drive less, walk and cycle more - and there's health benefits there. And also switch from petrol and diesel cars, both fossil fuels, to electric vehicles.
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