CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases are harming the climate, that much is clear.

You can use this CO₂ calculator to estimate your share of the CO₂ emissions and compare it with other citizens around the world.

Through our lifestyle at home, we have a decisive influence on our global climate. While we have sufficient means to protect ourselves against the dire consequences of climate change, the poorest people on this earth have to pay for those consequences. They don’t have the option of protecting their possessions, or even their lives. The particularly unfair thing about this is that they are the least responsible for climate change. The poorest countries on earth have the lowest per capita energy consumption and the lowest CO₂ balance sheet. It is the industrialised countries, above all, who are responsible for climate change.

Yet it is hard to understand what our consumer behaviour might have to do with the rising sea level in Bangladesh, or why the small island nations are threatened with being submerged, or why droughts, hurricanes and floods are now occurring more frequently. By making small changes in your daily life, you can do your bit to help our climate!