The Climate Bonus

8Health and well-being

Benefits of a low-carbon lifestyle

Key messages

• Low-carbon lifestyles can help to tackle growing public health problems related to physical inactivity, poor diet and stress, which cause half of all attributable deaths.
• Active travel, such as walking or cycling instead of using a car, can improve health and fitness for the increasing number of people with sedentary lifestyles, reducing the risk of heart disease and strokes.
• A low-carbon diet – reducing over-consumption of meat and dairy produce, and eating less processed food and more fresh fruit, vegetables, grains and pulses – is better for health.
• Less materialistic lifestyles – buying less and working less – can be associated with reduced stress, more well-being and ...