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About this project

A low carbon Britain doesn't have to mean cutbacks and sacrifice. Climate change is an enormous challenge. But if we respond in the right way, many of the changes we make could improve our quality of life.

We've conducted a literature review to explore how UK lifestyles could change in the next 15 years to become low carbon lifestyles. We’ve also spoken to some of the people* who are campaigning for a low carbon Britain or
developing practical ways to get us there.

The result is a set of visions for local carbon living. They are placed in 2022, far enough in the future for some new technologies to have become available and for progressive policies to be put in place, but similar enough to today to be recognisable.

Read our visions of low carbon living in 2022

We've also come up with a set of nine new products and services that could help us lead low carbon lifestyles in the future.

See our low carbon products and services for 2022

_{* Thanks to: David Titterton, Kevin McCullough, Jane Franklin, Lee Clarke, Julia Lynch Williams and Nina Skorupska from nPower; Euan Murray, Garry Staunton and Marcus Rand from the Carbon Trust; and Caroline Lucas, Roger Levett, Tim Smit, Anne-Fay Townsend from ?What If!, Matt Mellen, Josephine Green, Catherine Bennett, Glenn Lyons and Lucy Stone.}