As world leaders meet to talk (and talk) about global warming, Ros Coward offers 10 practical steps we can all take to help save the planet

Today, world leaders are meeting in the Hague to discuss climate change and what – if anything – can be done to combat global warming. Their discussions will be full of abstractions about “carbon trading” and “flexible mechanisms”. But for many us here, the issue has suddenly become far from abstract. Extreme weather conditions have brought home the fact that our climate is changing – and changing fast. It may be easy to be fatalistic about it, but the truth is that although we humans have caused the problem, we also have the solution. “Think global and act local,” said Friends of the Earth founder David Bower, who died last week. In many small but important ways we can make a difference. Here are my top tips for how to begin:

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