Energy efficiency - Climate control starts in the home

THE key to climate control transcends the high-sounding complexities of the Kyoto agreement and effectively involves each one of us making personal decisions about taking control, turning down, switching off, recycling and walking.

In a nutshell, that’s the fundamental message of a European-wide campaign launched today with the aim of encouraging individual citizens to play their own part in saving this troubled planet.

As far as most people are concerned, Kyoto is the stuff of intergovernmental wrangling with the twin objective of slowing down global warming by reducing greenhouse gases.