Event - How Green is Household Behavior? Sustainable Choices in a Time of Interlocking Crises

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Title

How Green is Household Behavior? Sustainable Choices in a Time of Interlocking Crises

Organizer

OECD

Type

Online Seminars

Focus

• Climate Change

Start

2023/06/13 3:00 PM CEST

End

2023/06/13 4:00 PM CEST

Country

• Worldwide

Venue

Online

URL

link to the event

Description

Virtually all household choices – ranging from daily routines, such as what to eat and how to get to work, to less frequent decisions, like how to heat our homes and whether to buy a car – affect the climate and the environment. While the potential of individual and household choices to reduce environmental impacts is clear, the increasing urgency of climate change and other environmental crises illustrates the challenge governments face in realizing this potential.

How sustainable are household choices and how does behavior vary across different domains? What is preventing us from making more sustainable choices and how can governments help overcome the barriers?

Join our Green Talks LIVE on 13 June 2023 from 3:00-4:00 PM CEST to find out more at the launch of the OECD report How Green is Household Behaviour? Sustainable Choices in a Time of Interlocking Crises. The report provides an overview of the results from the 2022 OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC). With comparable data on household environmental behavior across nine countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and four thematic areas (energy, transport, waste, and food), the EPIC Survey provides unique insights into the drivers of household choices and the measures governments can put in place to make them more sustainable.

A presentation from the OECD on the key findings from the report will be complemented with insights from experts on the role of demand-side measures in managing climate and environmental challenges.