If all the talk of net zero has inspired you to go greener at home, the good news is that it's never too late to start. There's a lot more to it than simply remembering your bag for life or choosing a veggie hot dog on Monday, but these small steps, along with bigger steps like installing insulation or solar panels , will all help us reach our 1.5C global warming target by 2050. And with some of the UK government's latest net-zero plans facing criticism from environmental experts , you may be wondering what you can do independently to help the cause. Jodi Manning, vice president of marketing and corporate partnerships at Cool Effect , a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to combating the climate crisis, tells us: \u201cThe good news is that there are simple changes people can make to change and they adopted the climate. -friendly habits\u201d. This can include reducing waste, reducing the use of plastics and adopting the use of renewable energy sources. Here are 15 ways you can be more green.<\/p>\n
1. Check the efficiency of the heating system<\/strong><\/p>\n A healthy heating system is environmentally friendly and ensuring you run on low carbon fuel is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint. If your boiler is 10 or more years old, it may be time to upgrade it to a modern "condensing" boiler, which can achieve an efficiency of up to 90 percent, or consider alternatives such as a heat pump or a biomass boiler. From 2025, the installation of gas and oil boilers in banned in new homes and looking ahead it is likely that the UK will phase out traditional fossil fuel boilers entirely within the next few years. So now is a good time to look at a greener heating system alternative, especially with a boiler upgrade scheme available to alleviate some of the financial problems this can cause.<\/p>\n "by clicking on the title of the article, you will be redirected to the entire article"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If all this talk of net zero has inspired you to go greener at home, the good news is that it\u2019s never too late to start. There are many more options than simply remembering your bag for life or choosing vegetarian hot dogs on Monday, but these small steps, along with bigger ones like installing [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}