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Building a home in timber instead of concrete, brick and steel saves an average of 59 tonnes of CO₂-eq per home.

Timber construction is the largest single solution in the entire Utrecht assessment: 1,120 kton CO₂-eq of reduction plus 270 kton of sequestration per year by 2030.

Industry is the smallest climate sector of the province of Utrecht at 570 kton CO₂-eq of emissions per year — and at the same time the sector with the largest potential: 1,730 kton of reduction and sequestration by 2030.

Regenerative and conservation agriculture covered 5.6% of Utrecht’s farmland in 2019: 3,715 hectares of the 66,348-hectare total.

Planting 4,000 hectares of new forest — including more trees along verges and in public space — delivers the province of Utrecht 13 kton of CO₂ sequestration per year by 2030.

Silvopasture — combining trees with livestock farming — can deliver the province of Utrecht 58 kton of reduction plus 72 kton of sequestration per year by 2030.

The average Dutch person wasted 34.3 kg of food in 2018, good for an annual emission of 131 kg of carbon dioxide per person (Netherlands Nutrition Centre).

Reducing food loss and waste by 70% compared to 2018 delivers the province of Utrecht a reduction of 120 kton CO₂-eq per year by 2030.

A shift towards plant-rich food can deliver the province of Utrecht a reduction of 397 kton CO₂-eq per year by 2030.

Restoring subsidence-prone peat meadows avoids 16.5 tonnes of CO₂-eq of emissions per hectare per year.