Tackling the Climate Crises using Reduce

Reduce is Beyond Logic Consulting's response to climate change. It is a science based approach to voluntary behaviour change which empowers people to reduce their carbon emissions.
It has the potential to lower an individual’s carbon emissions by up to 30% while reducing air pollution,  relieving climate anxiety, improving health & wellbeing, and saving money on energy and transport.
Reduce has five key elements:
  • a Carbon database which provides data on the emissions generated by individual activities, and on the emissions reductions which can be achieved by different actions
  • a  Carbon survey used to collect data on current carbon emissions 
  • a Handbook which provides useful information and advice, along with over 100 practical actions you can take to reduce your emissions from home energy, transport & travel, food, and shopping
  • a personalised set of recommended actions which take into account personal circumstances and preferences;
  • a portal which provides easy access to survey results and the personalised recommendations.

reduce!

Reduce! is a game in which your objective is to be the first to achieve your annual carbon emissions reduction target. It is designed to increase understanding of the major sources of carbon emissions and generate interest in what you can do to reduce them.
The game uses:
  • 38 Lifestyle cards which identify where you need to reduce your emissions across four aspects of your life: Transport & Travel, Home, Food, and Energy. 
  • 56 Action cards which show the actions you can take to reduce your emissions and hit your target.
  • 32 Random Event cards which  spell out what you need to do in response to a range of chance events.
  • Carbon Tokens which are the equivalent of money used in the game, and are the value of the carbon emissions being generated by your lifestyle activities and saved by your Actions to reduce emissions. 

REDUCE Quiz

How well informed are you about carbon emissions?
You can test your knowledge by answering the questions opposite.
Answers will be collated anonymously and results shared in the Library .

Useful links

UN Climate change: UNFCCC
WMO:  World Meteorological Organization | (wmo.int)
IPCC: IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
World Economic Forum: Climate Change | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
NASA: Global Temperature | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (nasa.gov)
Latest news on the Copernicus Climate Change Service: News | Copernicus
BBC: Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help - BBC News
NOAA Climate.gov: Global Climate Dashboard | NOAA Climate.gov
Climate Change Jargon Buster: https://www.clydeco.com/en/insights/2021/10/climate-change-jargon-buster