One way we can stop our planet from overheating is by underheating our homes. Heating uses more energy and creates more CO2 than anything else we do indoors.
Most of the CO2 produced by our homes comes from the energy we use. And heating accounts for around 60% of that energy.
Most homes in the UK are overheated. A nice, comfy setting for your thermostat is between 18C and 21C - but half of the nation's thermostats are set higher than this.
Instead, warm yourself by putting on a hand-knitted jumper.
If everyone in the UK used more of their natural human heat - each body is equivalent to a 100 Watt heater - and turned their heating down by just one degree, we'd save 6.7 million tonnes of CO2 each year.
It is like shutting down fourteen coal-fired power stations for a month, not to mention chopping £716 million off our energy bills.
And being a bit cooler means you'll burn more calories to generate body warmth, giving you a nicer figure to show off come summertime.
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