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Like it or not, every one of us contributes to climate change - every country, council, business, community, family and person. None of us can tackle climate change alone - but by working together we can seriously reduce the impacts and the damage that climate change causes. Just under half of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK are produced by people like you and me. The average person creates 11 tonnes of CO2 (carbon dioxide) a year, which includes the pollution associated with our home, travel and shopping – this is known as your carbon footprint. Visit the Carbon Gym to find out how big your carbon footprint is - and how you could go about reducing it. Climate scientists say that in order to avoid reaching the tipping point, where we experience runaway global warming, we need to reduce our carbon emissions by at least 60%, possibly as much as 90%. The UK government has set a target to reduce the nation's carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. Large businesses are already obliged to work towards this and soon it's likely we will all be encouraged in lots of different ways to do the same. We've also created some tips here: What about the US? Many people are concerned about US carbon emissions– and rightly so. The US has 4% of the world's population and produces over a quarter of the world's CO2 emissions. But... although the national government has showed little sign of taking climate change seriously, a growing number of individual states and cities in the US are introducing tough measures for cutting their carbon. The US is also probably the world's leading country in the development of renewable energy technologies. And China? Yes, another big polluter and one of the world's fastest growing economies. Yet, the average person in China creates about a third of the CO2 as someone in the UK. At the end of the day - climate change is a global problem and needs a global solution - yet to make it happen we all need to play our part.