The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister warned last week.
On the second day of talks at the Major Economies Forum in the capital, he said that by 2080 an extra 1.8 billion people - a quarter of the world's current population - could lack sufficient water.
But whilst debates between various world leaders rage on at the UN this week, what we want to know is- what is being done on a local level, and what can we do ourselves?
Alex Carter, Managing Director of bus company Go South Coast based in Bournemouth and Poole, says that we can all be more energy-efficient.
"If we can persuade people to switch from cars and other modes [of transport], but cars especially, to buses, then that would be a definite step towards helping to reduce carbon emissions," said Mr Carter earlier this week.
Go South Coast is a branch of the Go-Ahead Transport group, who last month announced a huge 16% reduction in carbon emissions this year, not only from investing in new fleets of greener buses, but on site premises, where employees are being encouraged to be more energy-conscious.
"We've put in a number of measures to try to get our buses running more fuel-efficiently.
We're training drivers to give them techniques to drive more efficiently and we have to support that, in the cab of the buses, a device called a 'little black box' to give them indications of when they're revving excessively…
We've also got more energy efficient lighting on-site which switches off when people aren’t in the room, and saves us about 15% year on year."
For more information visit:
Go South Coast
Summit on Climate Change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/
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