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New research from the Hot or Cool Institute analyses lifestyle carbon footprints from nine G20 countries around the world
The new 1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Towards a Fair Consumption Space for All report released by the Hot or Cool Institute is based on data from Canada, Finland, United Kingdom, Japan, China, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, India, and Indonesia.
EnergyNeighborhoods Wins 2021 EU Sustainable Energy Engagement Award
The EnergyNeighbourhoods programme helps citizens take action against climate change without any investment but by changing their everyday behavior. Communities across Hungary have shown that by making simple lifestyle changes, citizens can achieve average energy savings between 7-10% and in some cases up to 25%.
Why Do We Need 1.5° Lifestyles?
The EU 1.5° Lifestyles project aims to mainstream 1.5° Lifestyles. But what do we mean by lifestyles, and why 1.5°? We know that our lifestyles have to change if we are to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis - and that means creating radical change in the structures that shape our lifestyles, from policy to infrastructure, and economic and societal institutions.
A warm welcome to all of you!
We are very excited to start our newsletter series on the Horizon 2020 funded EU 1.5° Lifestyles project. From today onwards, we will inform you about all relevant news and insights regarding the mainstreaming of sustainable lifestyles in the European Union and beyond.
Doris Fuchs
Doris Fuchs is Professor and currently Speaker of the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster (WWU). Her research focuses on sustainable consumption and wellbeing, power and participation in sustainability governance, and the political economy of energy, climate, and agrifood governance. She consults policy makers and other stakeholders at all levels of…
Stephanie Cap
Stephanie started as a PhD researcher at the Industrial Ecology department of CML in August 2021. Stephanie Cap graduated with an MSc in Industrial Ecology from Leiden University in the Netherlands in July 2021. For her final thesis, she developed a multi-criteria assessment model for comparing different types of nuts and seeds on environmental, nutritional and social criteria.
Before obtaining…
Laura Scherer
Arnold Tukker
Arnold Tukker is the Professor of Industrial Ecology and Scientific director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML, 140 staff) at Leiden University. He retains a small position at the Dutch not-for-profit research organisation TNO. Arnold set up 15 million euros in EU projects in which the world’s most ambitious and detailed global energy/resource/economic input-output database (EXIOBASE…
Vanessa Mato Santiso
Vanessa Mato-Santiso, Ph.D. in economic analysis and business strategy, is an Assistant Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Documentation at the University of A Coruña. Her research focuses on (nonprofit) marketing channel strategies, corporate social responsibility, sustainability and social innovation. She was visiting fellow at the Erasmus University and researcher in the EU funded ITSSOIN…
Nadin Ozcelik
She is a Postdoc researcher for the EU 1.5 Lifestyles project at the University of A Coruña. She holds a BSc degree in Forest Industrial Engineering from Istanbul University and MA degree in Business Administration from Marmara University, as well as PhD in Economic Analysis and Business Strategy from the University of Vigo. She attempts to address the circular economy (CE) strategies that…
Marta Rey-Garcia
Tenured associate professor at the School of Economics and Business of the University of A Coruña (UDC), Spain. Since 2011 she is the director of the Inditex Sustainability Chair at the UDC and its graduate course in Sustainability and Social Innovation (CESIS). Her research interests focus on civil society organizations, sustainability, social innovation, and nonprofit marketing. She has…
Adina Dumitru
Dr Adina Dumitru is Director of the Sustainability Specialization Campus is a Distinguished “Beatriz Galindo” Researcher at the University of A Coruna. She is also a member of the GIPDAE research group. Her current teaching and research focus on the psychological determinants of healthy and sustainable lifestyles, the impact of nature-based solutions on social cohesion, empowerment and health, and…