Electric cars are much much better for the environment. If the power they use to charge from comes from renewable energy. Electric cars can be 100% green (not just the colour green).

Tell your grown ups that it is really easy to switch to renewable energy, and that often it costs the same or only a tiny bit more than the alternatives. It normally just means ticking a little box on a piece of paper or form.

Please pester your grown ups to stop wasting energy in the home. Rather than turning up the heating when they say they are cold, encourage them to insulate the house, or put double glazing in the windows. Failing that go and get them a jumper.

Leaving lights on in the house, or gadgets on standby uses power. Encourage your grown ups to switch things off. Ask them to install smart meters - and then you can show them the money they’ll save.

Lots of grown ups don’t understand that it costs lots of money, and uses lots of energy to clean water, so leaving taps on in your house or school, wastes lots of water and energy.

Grown ups look after their money by saving it and investing. Please pester them politely to find out if their money is being invested in things that do good, rather than in things that might harm the world and your future.

Ask your parents to wash your clothes in cold water, it works just as well. See if they can please put a filter in the washing machine to stop plastic microfibres getting into the sea. Offer to peg the clothes outside on a washing line or spinner wherever possible {the wind and the sun can dry just as well}.

Wherever possible encourage your parents to buy things that don’t come in plastic wrapping (for example: encourage them to get shopping bags that can be re-used, or to buy washing powder in boxes or strips, not plastic bottles, or environmentally friendly toilet rolls, or to buy things in glass jars or cans not in plastic.

Ask if the family can take a local holiday, and if you can avoid flying (in Sweden they have a word called flygskam which means flight shame}. If you cannot avoid flying then ask your parents about offsetting your emissions for your flights {this means paying money to green projects as a way of making things a little better}.