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Drink tap water - a litre of bottled water puts several hundred times more stress on the climate than a litre of tap water. The Danes’ consumption of bottled water results in annual CO2 emissions of 12,000 tonnes.

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Individuals or businesses can purchase carbon credits to offset their unavoidable carbon emissions, for example from driving or air travel, under a voluntary or mandatory scheme.

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Vegetarian food requires much less energy to produce than meat. If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your CO2 footprint by up to 1.5 tons a year. Trading a standard car for a hybrid car cuts only about one ton of CO2 a year.

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The average home receives 224 items of junk mail a year, most of which end up in landfill. Stopping this trend would save around 4 kg of CO2 per household per year.