It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures

By G. Dubois, Benjamin Sovacool, C. Aall, M. Nilsson, C. Barbier, A. Herrmann, Sébastien Bruyère, Camilla Andersson, Bore Sköld, F. Nadaud and 10 more. Energy Research & Social Science, 2019

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Through their consumption behavior, households are responsible for 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, they are key actors in reaching the 1.5°C goal under the Paris Agreement. However, t ...

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

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The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability (2020, background): “Package holidays and air transport are luxury items with high energy intensity (Oswald et al., 2020); at the same time, they receive extremely low policy attention, with only 1% of policies targeting aviation (Dubois et al., 2019).”
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions (2020, background): “A comparative household survey in Germany, France, Sweden and Norway (Dubois et al 2019) found that most consumers are willing to implement relatively simple changes, such as enhanced waste recycling or buying energy-efficient appliances, but unwilling to reduce consumption levels by abandoning priv”
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change (2020, background): “Against this background, the COVID-19 pandemic represents an opportunity to critically discuss air transport and aviation climate governance (Dubois et al., 2019; Gössling, 2020; Larsson et al., 2018, 2019), based on patterns of air transport demand.”