“The footprint of people in high income countries such as the UK would have to fall by more than 90 per cent by 2050, according to the report co-written by scientists from the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and Lausanne and published by the Hot or Cool Institute think tank. It says that the 1.5C target means that the UK’s average lifestyle carbon footprint per person has to decline from 8.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2019 to 0.7 tonnes by 2050. It identifies four “especially problematic” lifestyle choices: “Eating meat, using fossil fuel cars, flying and large and high energy-consuming houses.”
