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As we approach the end of the year, the EU 1.5° Lifestyles Project extends warm wishes to everyone, regardless of the holiday traditions you hold dear or the festive celebrations you partake in. 🌈

Too often, climate policies are not placed within a broader social context and policy makers neglect to see that welfare policies are vital to climate mitigation.

In a significant development for the field of sustainability research, Professor Doris Fuchs, the Consortium Lead for the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project, has taken up the role of Director at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam, effective 1 October 2023.

Our colleague from Lund University, Jessika Luth Richter, shares her insights into how her conscious choice for sufficient travelling options in the face of the climate crisis has shaped her perceptions of travel.

Our current food and agriculture system accounts for approximately one-third of the earth’s greenhouse gas emissions. It is a significant contributor to climate change and in many cases it causes environmental degradation, harming the natural systems that make life on earth possible. 

What would 1.5° lifestyles look like? And the road towards them?

GreenDependent Institute organised a second Citizen Thinking Lab on 28 October 2023 in Hungary.

On October 7th, the University of A Coruña hosted the 2nd round of Citizen Thinking Labs (CTL 2), one of the five planned thinking labs within the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project. The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEE), at Elviña Campus, hosted  the CTL 2. 

The University of Münster team has been contributing to the field of environmental and societal transformation with recent presentations of early research paper drafts as part of the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project at two events in Germany: one in Witten and another in Halle. Here are some glimpses of the early insights they shared at the events.