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What cuts a household's emissions most

2.00tonnes of CO₂-equivalent per person per year

cut by living car-free, the median across studies reviewed by Ivanova et al., mostly in high-income settings.

TransportFoodHousingt CO₂e/person/yr
The 15 largest of 28 options. Means of the reviewed studies unless marked.

Data: Ivanova, Barrett, Wiedenhofer, Macura, Callaghan and Creutzig (University of Leeds, BOKU Vienna, Stockholm Environment Institute, MCC Berlin); published in Environmental Research Letters (IOP Publishing) (CC BY 4.0). Select any number for its source.