Your lifestyle

The choices you make as a consumer have an impact. By making conscious choices, you can reduce energy consumption in your home.
The energy needed in order to produce, process, transport, sell and recycle goods is called indirect energy consumption. Different amounts of energy are used for different goods.

What can you do for the climate?

Here is some general advice on how to reduce your emissions of greenhouse gases.

Travelling, food, drink and consumer goods

The pages here will provide you with some tips.

Travelling and transportation often result in carbon dioxide emissions which contribute to the greenhouse effect. By planning your travel, you can reduce both the amount of energy used and emissions.

Read more about your travels.

Food accounts for a large part of household energy consumption and this part is easy to influence through conscious choices.

Read more about food and drink.

Other goods and services which you consume have a greater or lesser impact on energy consumption.

Read about consumer goods.

If you would like to compensate for your own emissions, you should use the regulatory systems covered by the UN or the EU.

Read more about climate compensation.

Consume Smarter

Stockholm City is running a project called “Consume Smarter” which forms a part of its action plan and which is designed to reduce the greenhouse effect.

With the support of 60 households, the project will find out whether it is possible to change consumption habits and lifestyle by saving energy and resources so that we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Read about the project Consume smarter.

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