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Study relates to change habits to combat global warming

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Eat less meat, limit the travel, accept staying with heat during the summer and cold during the winter: alternative routines also help to combat global warming, according to a study presented on Monday (26) in Brussels.

"Change their habits is difficult," admitted the specialists of the consultancy McKinsey in this study, presented in the presence of European Commissioner for Environment, Stavros Dimas.

However, according to them, these small gestures of everyday life may reject to prevent the atmosphere from 3.5 to 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide in about 2030.

The study listed 200 possible actions to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, including CO2, and limit global warming to 2 º C in 2030.

"Reducing the number of business travel and private travel, change your car by train, take the lower the heating or air conditioning and limit the consumption of meat" are a few options, according to the authors of the study.

However, most efforts should focus on energy efficiency in transport and construction, the development of non-fossil energy sources such as biofuels, and to combat deforestation.

"The cost of the effort for the world to be 200 to 350 billion euros per year by 2030 and would lead to reject 38 billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere" during this period, according to the study.
 


Source: Idec

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