Tag: Closing the gap

Counting on … day 202

29th October 2024

About 34% of all our greenhouse gas emissions are food related so looking at what we eat and making changes can be – cumulatively – a very effective way of addressing the climate crisis.(1)

80% of agricultural land is used for feeding and grazing livestock, yet produces only 17% of global calories.(2) Reducing the meat and dairy products we eat, not only reduces the emissions linked directly to the livestock, but also frees up land that could be used to grow plant based foods for humans, and frees up land that could be rewilded to boost both biodiversity and natural carbon capture. 

The Ethical Consumer’s report ‘Closing the Gap 2024’ records that this change in diet in the UK has already started, so let’s carry on and boost this trend even more!

Tips for swopping to a plant based diet – https://greentau.org/2021/10/12/eco-tips-11/

  1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00225-9
  2. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

Further reading https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-tweaking-your-diet-can-help-save-planet

Counting on …day 1.205

31st October 2023

Each year Ethical Consumer produces a report on the government’s progress in transitioning to net zero. It useful not just for the government, bit for consumers too. It is sponsored by the Ecology Building Society: “Consumers need reliable information to be able to make informed choices and authoritative data can shape priorities and guide actions for businesses and government at all levels. We sponsor this report because the information it contains gives consumers  more power to make better choices- by voting with their feet, their wallets or at the ballot box”. 

Do read the report – Closing the Gap 2023 – and be one of the many consumers using their spending and voting power to achieve net zero.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/climate gap 2023 report 12-10.pdf