Prospects for radical emissions reduction through behavior and lifestyle change

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Reducing Working Hours as a Means to Foster Low(er)-Carbon Lifestyles? An Exploratory Study on Swiss Employees

“…Such transformations, however, have to be rooted in changes towards low(er)-carbon individual lifestyles. Research on conventional behavior change strategies, such as information and communication campaigns, social marketing or nudging show positive effects, however only to a limited extent [10]. Moreover, it has been found that individual carbon footprint levels, particularly in the domain of housing and transportation, only marginally relate to pro-environmental motivations, whereas individuals' income levels have a much stronger predictive power (e.g., [5,11]).…”

An Exploration of Neighborhood Residents’ Cognition of and Participation in Low-Carbon Behaviors in Wuhan, China

“…But in the fields such as being close to the nature and looking after plants, neighborhood residents spontaneously perform low-carbon related behaviors. (2) e results in this paper revealed people's level of participation in low-carbon behaviors at the neighborhood scale, while many previous literatures emphasized on the impact of individual low-carbon behavior change [12,18,50]. It was discovered that most respondents cared about the low-carbon impact on their daily lives and concentrated their participation in low-carbon behaviors from traditional products such as disposable chopsticks, toiletries, and plastic bags, though some expressed their difficulties to do so in their daily lives.…”

Intermediaries’ perspectives on the public’s role in the energy transitions needed to deliver UK climate change policy goals

“…To meet these targets the UK faces 'an urgent need for completely new energy policy across a range of areas' (UK Committee on Climate Change, 2016). It is thought by many that a reliance upon individual-level voluntary behavioural responses by the wider public can only make a limited contribution to meeting those targets (Capstick et al 2014;Shove, 2010;Capstick et al 2015;Chamberlin et al 2015). At the same time there has, to date, been political reluctance in the UK to introduce more radical top-down policies to structure emissions reduction, such as carbon taxation or personal carbon trading (Chamberlin et al 2015;Lorenzoni et al 2008).…”