Reader tips: How to reduce your climate impact as an international resident

"The world's leading climate scientists on the United Nations's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday released the final part of their sixth assessment report, warning again of human-induced climate change causing increasingly irrevocable damage to the world and its ecosystems. This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once," said UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres."

"Carefully plan your trips home There have been several campaigns in recent years to get people to cut down on their flying, but avoiding it completely is near-impossible for many international residents, who may have have family and friends in several different countries or need to travel for business reasons. But are there ways of flying more sensibly? Many of our readers said they had made efforts to plan their visits home better, for example by making longer and fewer trips."

The IPCC released the final part of the sixth assessment report, warning that human-induced climate change is causing increasingly irrevocable damage to the world and ecosystems. The report urges massively fast-tracking climate efforts across every country, sector, and timeframe. Practical individual actions include planning trips home more carefully, making longer and fewer flights, combining work and leisure travel, and choosing trains or direct journeys instead of short-haul or connecting flights. Small everyday changes and more sensible travel choices can reduce personal carbon footprints and contribute to broader emissions reductions when adopted widely.

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