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DOI | 10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.001 |
It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures | |
Dubois, Ghislain1; Sovacool, Benjamin2,3; Aall, Carlo4; Nilsson, Maria6; Barbier, Carine7; Henniann, Alina5; Bruyere, Sebastien1; Andersson, Camilla6,8; Skold, Bore6; Nadaud, Franck9; Dorner, Florian5; Moberg, Karen Richardsen4; Ceron, Jean Paul1; Fischer, Helen10; Amelung, Dorothee10; Baltruszewicz, Marta11; Fischer, Jeremy1; Benevise, Francoise1; Louis, Valerie R.10; Sauerborn, Rainer5 | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 2214-6296 |
EISSN | 2214-6326 |
卷号 | 52页码:144-158 |
英文摘要 | Through their consumption behavior, households are responsible for 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, they are key actors in reaching the 1.5 degrees C goal under the Paris Agreement. However, the possible contribution and position of households in climate policies is neither well understood, nor do households receive sufficiently high priority in current climate policy strategies. This paper investigates how behavioral change can achieve a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in European high-income countries. It uses theoretical thinking and some core results from the HOPE research project, which investigated household preferences for reducing emissions in four European cities in France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The paper makes five major points: First, car and plane mobility, meat and dairy consumption, as well as heating are the most dominant components of household footprints. Second, household living situations (demographics, size of home) greatly influence the household potential to reduce their footprint, even more than country or city location. Third, household decisions can be sequential and temporally dynamic, shifting through different phases such as childhood, adulthood, and illness. Fourth, short term voluntary efforts will not be sufficient by themselves to reach the drastic reductions needed to achieve the 1.5 degrees C goal; instead, households need a regulatory framework supporting their behavioral changes. Fifth, there is a mismatch between the roles and responsibilities conveyed by current climate policies and household perceptions of responsibility. We then conclude with further recommendations for research and policy. |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源期刊 | ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/98110 |
作者单位 | 1.TEC Conseil, Marseille, France; 2.Aarhus Univ, Aarhus, Denmark; 3.Univ Sussex, Sci Policy Res Unit, Brighton, E Sussex, England; 4.Western Norway Res Inst, Sogndal, Norway; 5.Univ Hosp Heidelberg, Heidelberg Inst Global Hlth, Heidelberg, Germany; 6.Umea Univ, Dept Publ Hlth & Clin Med, Epidemiol & Global Hlth, Umea, Sweden; 7.Ctr Int Rech Environm & Dev, Paris, France; 8.Umea Univ, Dept Radiat Sci, Umea, Sweden; 9.CIRED, Nogent Sur Marne, France; 10.Heidelberg Univ, Heidelberg, Germany; 11.Univ Leeds, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dubois, Ghislain,Sovacool, Benjamin,Aall, Carlo,et al. It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures[J],2019,52:144-158. |
APA | Dubois, Ghislain.,Sovacool, Benjamin.,Aall, Carlo.,Nilsson, Maria.,Barbier, Carine.,...&Sauerborn, Rainer.(2019).It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures.ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE,52,144-158. |
MLA | Dubois, Ghislain,et al."It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures".ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE 52(2019):144-158. |
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