Follow the Dutch when it comes to cycling and cutting down CO2 emissions

The Dutch (as here in Amsterdam) are avid cyclists and travel an average of 2.6km per day by bicycle. Photo: AFP

A recent study suggests that if everyone adopted the same cycling habits as the Dutch, CO2 emissions could be reduced by nearly 700 million tonnes per year.

To put that into perspective, that figure alone exceeds the annual carbon footprint of Britain or Canada.