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ACT ON CO2
Useful links
Reduce your impact on the environment with the help of the following sites. (Please note that ACT ON CO2 is not responsible for any content published on other sites.)
At home
- Energy Saving Trust
- Advice to help you save money and fight climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from your home.
- Freecycle Network
- A grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
- WRAP
- WRAP helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change.
- WRAP's Love Food Hate Waste campaign
- This campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. You’ll find examples of easy, practical, everyday things you can do to waste less food.
- WRAP's Recycle Now campaign
- This site illustrates how easy it is to recycle and gives examples of the positive effect your recycling efforts are making.
- Recycle More
- One-stop recycling information centre with help and advice on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and at work.
- Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS)
- A wealth of information to help you make the most of the water you use in the garden.
- Scottish Building Standards Agency
- A guide aimed at people who want to make home improvements but who also want to reduce their impact on the environment – and save money on running costs.
- Renewable Energy Centre
- An easy-to-understand introduction to renewable technologies, with advice on installation and a directory of contractors and suppliers.
- Washright
- Campaign which advises consumers on how to wash laundry in a more environmentally-friendly way.
- Waste Online
- Website managed by Waste Watch that provides information on sustainability, resource use and waste issues.
On the move
- Environment and Greener Living
- The section of the Directgov site dedicated to helping you live a lower-cost, more environmentally-friendly life. Packed with great advice.
- Transport Direct Journey Planner
- Plan your journey and compare how much CO2 will be emitted if you travel by car, train, bus or plane.
- Think Road Safety
- Road safety advice to keep everyone safer on the UK's roads.
- VCA (Vehicle Certification Agency) Car Fuel Efficiency Data
- Helping new car buyers to reduce the impact their vehicles have on the environment.
- DSA (Driving Standards Agency)
- Everything you need to know about learning to drive safely.
- You Control Climate Change
- How you can reduce the impact you're having on climate change.
- Energy Saving Trust
- Discover how to improve your energy efficiency and reduce your carbon emissions.
- Company Car Tax
- Information on company car tax and other benefits.
- DVLA vehicle online services
- Check your car’s CO2 emissions on the vehicle enquiry page.
- Business related transport
- An introduction to free guidance, training, services and funding available to help businesses reduce CO2 emissions from business travel, fleet vehicles and freight operations.
- Drive LPG
- A consumers guide to LPG (Liquified Petrolium Gas), as an alternative vehicle fuel, in the UK.
Out shopping
- European Eco-label
- European guide to greener products and services.
- Farmers Markets
- Directory of farmers' markets in the UK.
- LEAF
- LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) aims to bring consumers and farmers together to do something positive for the farming industry.
- Envirowise
- Envirowise offers UK businesses free, independent, confidential advice and support on practical ways to increase profits, minimise waste and reduce environmental impact.
- ENCAMS
- ENCAMS (Environmental Campaigns) is an environmental charity who campaign directly to the public. We are best known for our Keep Britain Tidy campaign.
Other links
Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Defra is a UK Government Department. The overarching challenge for Defra is to enable everyone to live within our environmental means.
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- The Department for Transport's aim is transport that works for everyone. This means a transport system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment and society.
- Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- Communities and Local Government is working hard to create thriving, sustainable, vibrant communities that improve everyone's quality of life.
- Environment Agency
- The Environment Agency looks after your environment and makes it a better place – for you, and for future generations.
- Every Action Counts
- Find out how community groups can lead the way to a greener, cleaner, fairer and safer future.
- It's Our Future
- Working towards a more sustainable, greener Scotland.
- Friends of the Earth
- The stated aim of Friends of the Earth is to help create “a healthy planet and a good life for everyone on it”.
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- The WWF sets out to “stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.”
- Global Action Plan
- Global Action Plan delivers tangible environmental, social and financial improvements by working practically and creatively with hundreds of thousands of people from all sections of society.
- Natural England
- Natural England sets out to “conserve and enhance the natural environment, for its intrinsic value, the wellbeing and enjoyment of people and the economic prosperity that it brings”.
- GreenChoices
- GreenChoices aims to empower people with simple, direct information on green alternatives which make a real, lasting difference to the environment.
- The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
- Works on policies both to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and to allow wildlife to adapt to climate change.
- The Royal Society
- The Royal Society is the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth and is at the cutting edge of scientific progress.
- The Met Office Hadley Centre
- This centre is leading international research into what could happen under climate change, and the impacts on current and future generations.
- Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform's (BERR)
- BERR helps ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world. Its sustainable technologies pages discuss energy sources.
- Carbon Trust
- Its aim is to “accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies”.
Climate change:
the facts
We face unavoidable climate change effects for the next 30 years due to the CO2 (carbon dioxide) and other greenhouse gases which we have already emitted, and so we need to adapt to the inevitable consequences.
Remember. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Cutting waste doesn’t have to mean making sacrifices. A low waste lifestyle can mean less carbon emissions and be good for your pocket.
