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Conference contribution to 9th International Degrowth Conference – 2023 on Discussing degrowth climate utopias with diverse stakeholders.

As we are now into the third year of the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project, we have a lot of news for you. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy reading about our work, let us know about any feedback you may have, and come to meet us at one of the conferences we are attending.

"The climate is changing. Are we changing too?" – this was the question members of the German Business Guild (Wirtschaftsgilde) asked themselves at their 73rd winter meeting. The meeting in Segl Maria in Switzerland lasted one week. Presentations on the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report and security risks associated with climate change set the scene before Lena Domröse from adelphi presented the EU 1.5…

EU 1.5° Lifestyles project partner D-mat has brought on the market the Klimapuzzle, a German version of the original Climate Puzzle, which also served as a basis for the Climate Puzzles developed for the five case countries in the EU1.5° Lifestyles project (Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Spain and Sweden).

This summer has been quite productive for the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project team. Our colleagues from the University of A Coruña (UDC) Adina Claudia Dumitru, Luisa Losada Puente and Nadin Ozcelik presented some of our research findings. Adina and Luisa presented the main findings on motivations, contextual resources and challenges for adopting a 1.5° lifestyle in five case countries in Europe, co…

Most of us need some support, encouragement, inspiration or more technical kind of assistance for leading 1.5-degree lifestyles. Getting involved in energy citizenship initiatives may give us exactly these sorts of help! And, there is a large diversity of them available around us as proven by the almost 600 cases mapped in Europe by researchers in the Horizon2020-supported EnergyPROSPECTS project.

Climate change could become the biggest threat to biodiversity within this century. Predictions into the future can make decision-makers aware of the potential impacts on biodiversity and support developing strategies proactively to lessen them. This is especially important for freshwater ecosystems that are facing the most severe biodiversity losses.

EU 1.5° Lifestyles team members recently participated in the International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE) conference in Leiden, the Netherlands, themed “Transitions in a world in turmoil” from 2-5 July 2023. Thanks to the fantastic job of the co-chairs Tomer Fishman and René Kleijn from Leiden University, the conference was a huge success, with over 850 participants joining from around…

The EU 1.5° Lifestyles project team is currently preparing the second round of Citizen Thinking Labs and Stakeholder Thinking Labs in five case countries, which will be supplemented by an EU Stakeholder Thinking Lab in Brussels to engage with EU policymakers and experts. As part of the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project’s aim to mainstream 1.5° lifestyles and provide tools and policies, part of our…