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Citizen Thinking Lab in Sweden
The first round of citizen thinking labs
Matthias Lehner
Matthias is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. Matthias conducts research in the field of sustainable consumption and sustainable business models. His work covers consumer behavior in the grocery store, nudging as a policy tool, green marketing and branding, the sharing economy, prosumption, sufficiency lifestyles…
Citizen Thinking Lab in Germany
The first round of citizen thinking labs
Ulrika Vinka
Ráchel Surányi
Sustainable lifestyles: Personal motivations, external challenges and facilitators
The latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2021) and IPCC sixth assessment report (2022) show that it is possible to limit the global temperature rise to 2.2°C if the net-zero emissions pledges are fully implemented and, thus, they call for immediate action both from the production and consumption-side. The projections show that policy-makers, businesses and society need to take effective measures to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and…
Will households accept 1.5° Lifestyles?
One of the heart pieces of the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project are the so-called Citizen Thinking Labs. Does this mean we lock up citizens into laboratories and experiment with their brains? No, of course not. We had a virtual coffee with our two project partners Lena Domröse and Maren Tornow from adelphi, who conceptualize the labs, to learn more about what a Citizen Thinking Lab looks like.
Anita Szőllőssy
Anita is working with GDI as an external expert. Earlier, she was a project manager at GDI and has a background in environmental sciences (MA in Human Ecology and MA in Regional and Environmental Economy).
She managed the EnergyNeighbourhoods program that focuses on helping households reduce their carbon footprints through behaviour change, where she was also responsible for coordinating…
Sustainable lifestyles and structures were hosted by the Joint Research Center
On 3 June, Nadin Ozcelik from the UDC team, our case country partner from Spain, shared a few preliminary findings from the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project in a seminar which was hosted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) in Seville. Focusing on Spain as a case study, she outlined a few of the most promising lifestyle options to reach the target of less than 1.5°C increase in…
1.5° Lifestyles inspiration: A household, where all the problems of the world get to be dealt with
In the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project, we are working and interacting with different stakeholders to learn more about 1.5° lifestyles as well as the factors that enable and obstruct efforts to these ways of living. As part of this learning process, we are interviewing citizens who are pioneers of 1.5° lifestyles in different European countries. We will share their inspiring stories in our blog. First, we share the story of a Hungarian family.
Changing the Goals of the System: A conversation with Dan O’Neill on moving away from economic growth and bringing about a 1.5° lifestyles transformation
The IPCC report underlines the need to stay within 1.5° of warming.
We sat down with Dan O’Neill to discuss the topic of transformative change, (limits to) economic growth, and how 1.5° lifestyles can be “a good life for all”. Below we have summarised the key takeaways from our discussion.
Changing union narratives of "the good life" - from overwork and overconsumption to sufficiency and more time?
In a recently published paper in the Journal of Industrial Relations, WWU team member Halliki Kreinin and co-author Katharina Keil find that German trade union narratives of "the good life" increasingly include broader sustainability concerns. The paper provides interesting inputs for reaching 1.5° lifestyles through mobilising different actors (in this case, unions) for the needed social…