How We Use Energy
Less Is More
Improvements in the efficiency with which we use energy offer the biggest opportunities to reduce energy consumption—and CO2 emissions—while saving money and increasing productivity at the same time. Efficiency improvements are also far and away the most cost-effective among the solutions to the climate crisis and can be implemented faster than any of the others.
The opportunities for enormous gains can be found in every sector of the economy—particularly in industrial processing; residential and commercial buildings; the electricity generating sector; the transportation sector; and even in the design of cities themselves.
The huge cost savings and CO2 reductions from improvements in efficiency are not speculative; they are real.