Impact of climate change on household behaviour
At 09:30 this morning, the Office for National Statistics published a report entitled: Impact of climate change on household behaviour in the UK. You can read it here but the main points are below.
- Households were the highest user of fossil fuels in the UK in 2019; this is compared with the energy, manufacturing and transport sectors.
- Household recycling rates have increased by 5 percentage points from 40 to 45% between 2010 and 2019 in the UK, with the highest rates currently in Wales.
- The biggest contributor to food waste in the UK is households, making up 70% of the overall total; overall food waste produced by the UK fell by around 15% between 2007 and 2018.
- International aviation emissions have risen sharply since the early 1990s, while domestic aviation emissions have remained at a similar level.
- The level of concern about climate change has increased by 11 percentage points from 2012; around three-quarters of people (76%) in the UK said they were concerned about climate change in March 2020.
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