In pictures: The Climate and Health Council’s list of 2013 resolutions for climate and health

1. To work out my carbon footprint and where I could cut it to make the biggest difference most readily. Start with simple things like always switching off rather than leaving on standby, buying an energy monitor, hang-drying clothes rather than tumble drying, and avoiding bottled water. If you’re willing to really aim for big cuts, there are carbon conversations groups around the country to help people to work out how to reduce it by 50% with the support of a trained facilitator and local peers. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

2. To cycle, walk or run wherever possible (or use public transport). To consider holiday destinations reachable by public transport and to take the lowest carbon transport option feasible. Photograph: Roevin/Getty Images/Flickr RF

3. To reduce the amount of red meat and high-fat dairy I eat by going vegetarian, shifting to white meat or pledging to become one of the ‘5 types of part-time carnivore’ (which helps to save the planet from harm, and my body from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and more). Photograph: RTimages / Alamy/Alamy

4. To bank ethically (with the Co-operative Bank, Triodos or others listed here). Where RBS has spent €10,694,000,000 financing coal since 2005, including funding tar sands and HSBC and Barclays are little better, the Co-operative Bank's ethical investment policy prohibits it from financing any oil, coal or gas projects. See this report for more info. Photograph: Guardian

5. To choose to buy from companies who are trying to make a difference, and deny it to companies which are not. How to know? Admittedly this is tricky, but the global 100 list, ethicalconsumer.org's run-down of ethical high street shops and boycott list may help. Consumer power matters. Last month Waitrose pulled out of a deal with Shell after a Greenpeace campaign. Photograph: Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images

6. To move to a renewable electricity company (such as good energy, ecotricity or have a look at ethical consumer's ranking for others. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

7. To make sure that my home is maximally insulated, and to turn my thermostat down a degree at a time because every degree saves 7-11% of bills and emissions. Photograph: Home Heat Helpline/PA

8. To write to or arrange to meet my MP, to write to the PM and parliamentary candidates, telling them that I will be voting principally on climate change related policies. (Or why not become a UNICEF Children's Champion?) Photograph: David Sillitoe/Guardian

9. To choose local and seasonal fruit and vegetables instead of unseasonal imports and to choose produce with less packaging. Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPA

10. To pressure my employer, university or pension fund to divest their funds away from fossil fuels - this analysis from Harvard's Institute of Politics has more information. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Murdo Macleod

11. To sign up to the petition related to the Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing. To consider signing up for the new CHC advocacy core team and to share these links with others. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA

12. To spread the word about climate and health, and the health co-benefits of sustainability, in my personal, professional and political life.
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