US consumers could save a France’s worth of greenhouse gases
ALT TITLES: Behavioral changes can drive huge reductions in CO 2 Cheap, available tech can drop US CO 2 emissions For the most part, efforts to improve the energy efficience (and thus the environmental impact) of the US economy have focused on big, transformative technologies, such as renewable power and a smarter grid. But direct energy use by domestic households, either for housing or personal transport, accounts for nearly 40 percent of the US total, which makes it a larger contributor to global CO 2 emissions than any nation other than China. A new study suggests that with modest behavioral changes and consumer adoption of simple and cheap technology, the US could reduce its emissions by an amount equivalent to the entire output of France.
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