Climate policy through changing consumption choices: Options and obstacles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

By Bastien Girod, D. P. Vuuren, Edgar G. Hertwich. 2014

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

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2. Zhifu Mi
3. Zhu Liu
4. Yuli Shan
5. Richard Wood
6. J. Barrett
7. Yi-Ming Wei
8. Edgar G. Hertwich

In Environmental Engineering

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3. Zhifu Mi
4. Yuli Shan
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In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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5. J. Barrett
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7. D. Ivanova
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Citations in the corpus

• Can social media be a tool for reducing consumers’ food waste? A behaviour change experiment by a UK retailer (2017, background): “The first is that progressive companies found that for consumer goods the results of environmental lifecycle assessments often showed the ‘use’ phase having the highest environmental loads (Girod et al., 2014).”
• The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability (2020, background): “3 tCO2 per capita in 2030 (Global Carbon Project, 2018; UN, 2017) or less (Girod et al., 2014; O’Neill et al., 2018; Tukker et al., 2016).”
• The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions (2018, background): “…of the most effective actions for reducing energy consumption (Attari et al 2010, Gardner and Stern, 2008) and mitigating climate change through personal actions (Girod et al 2014), though individuals have a poor understanding of which actions are more effective than others (Attari et al 2010).”
• Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “They advocate for social and political processes and innovations to assist rapid decreases in private automobile use and meat consumption (44, 79); transit-oriented development; decreased food waste; increased recycling, repairing, sharing, and reuse of goods (67, 79, 80); and equitable levels of co”
• Consumption‐based carbon accounting: does it have a future? (2017, background): “There is a growing body of literature to show that reduced consumption, through mechanisms such as working less, does not necessarily mean reduced quality of life.108 Girod et al.38 show the potential of consumer changes in food, shelter, mobility, goods, and services to make a significant contribut”
• How to deal with the rebound effect? A policy-oriented approach (2016, background): “vironmental efficiency, (2) shifts to greener consumption patterns and (3) downsizing consumption (Girod et al., 2014).”
• Low carbon lifestyles: A framework to structure consumption strategies and options to reduce carbon footprints (2016, methodology): “For example Girod et al. (2014) identi fi ed possible strategies to lower GHG emissions by applying the IPAT equation.”
• Feasible Options for Behavior Change Toward More Effective Ocean Literacy: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “The notion of self-efficacy may also be a matter of consumer sovereignty and environmental responsibility (Peattie, 2010; Ericson et al., 2014; Fischer and Barth, 2014; Girod et al., 2014).”
• Reducing meat consumption in developed and transition countries to counter climate change and biodiversity loss: a review of influence factors (2017, background): “The notion of perceived behaviour control may also be a matter of consumer sovereignty and environmental responsibility (Peattie 2010; Barker et al. 2009; Ericson et al. 2014; Girod et al. 2014; Fischer and Barth 2014).”
• Identifying critical supply chains and final products: An input-output approach to exploring the energy-water-food nexus (2018, background): “At the final demand stage, policies such as waste reduction, lifetime optimisation and dietary change will reduce environmental impacts [42,45,46].”
• Consumption-based emission accounting for Chinese cities (2016, result): “Recent studies have compared the two approaches and demonstrated the advantages of consumption-based accounting [16-19].”