however hertwich and peters state that of global ghg emissions are related to household consumption and the rest to government consumption and investments the potential of mitigating climate change by changing consumption patterns is modelled by girod and colleagues who propose that low ghgintensive choices in housing passenger transport food and other goods and services would make it possible to reach the c climate target by in addition to the endofpipe emissions of production we should focus on the unsustainable footprint of our normal everyday life