Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions

By Thomas Dietz, G. T. Gardner, J. Gilligan, P. Stern, M. Vandenbergh. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options (2020, background): “Focus only on direct emissions [57] (e.”
The appeal of the green deal: Empirical evidence for the influence of energy efficiency policy on renovating homeowners (2015, background): “The energy efficiency gap There are many efficiency improvements that can be made to domestic buildings, the most effective involving structural changes such as cavity wall insulation and triple-glazed windows, or upgrades to the heating and hot water systems such as high efficiency boilers (Gardner”
Spillover effects in environmental behaviors, across time and context: a review and research agenda (2017, background): “Despite these concerns, there are data to suggest that individual lifestyle changes can make a difference in reducing carbon emissions and in slowing consumption of natural resources (Dietz, Ostrom, and Stern 2003).”
Eco-driving: An overlooked climate change initiative (2010, background): “Recent studies (Ehrhardt-Martinez, 2008; Gardner and Stern, 2008; Dietz et al., 2009) indicate that energy reductions of 20– 25% are feasible in households while maintaining the existing standard of living and even producing net household savings.”
The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions (2018, background): “As a specific example, one textbook says ‘making a difference doesn’t have to be difficult’ and provides the example of switching from plastic bags to reusable shopping bags in order to save 5kg of CO2 per year (Dickinson et al 2009).”