Study: The six key lifestyle changes that can help avert the climate crisis

Only 13% of an iPhone 11’s lifetime emissions are down to its use; the other 86% are associated with its production, transport, and end-of-life processing; therefore people should keep electronic products for at least seven years.

Research shows that people in wealthier, high-consuming countries can help avert climate breakdown by making six relatively straightforward lifestyle changes, creating a society of “less stuff and more joy”.

Experts say if enacted these “shifts” would account for a quarter of the required emissions reductions needed to keep the global heating down to 1.5C and increase pressure on government and the private sector to make the necessary far-reaching systemic change.