Box: What can you do?

• Use alternative transportation – whenever possible walk, cycle or use mass transit.
• Always drive within the speed limit, optimizing your fuel economy.
• Plant trees to provide shelter.
• Protect forest resources as carbon sinks.
• Reduce waste and recycle where possible.
• Conserve energy at home and work; promote the use of renewable and alternative sources.
• Be a smart consumer – choose products and services that make use of "green" technologies and energy-efficient practices.
• Call on your national leaders to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, if they have not already done so.