Synopsis
To meet the government's emissions reductions targets, we'll need to make big changes to the way we live, travel and eat. But how much difference will these changes really make?
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: Climate Change: What Can We Do?
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Geography | Climate Change
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