Building a database for energy sufficiency policies
| Autor: | Benjamin Best, Johannes Thema, Carina Zell-Ziegler, Frauke Wiese, Jonathan Barth, Stephan Breidenbach, Leonardo Nascimento, Henry Wilke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Energy descent
WIMEK Energy demand General Immunology and Microbiology Databases Factual Climate Change Socio-ecological transformation General Medicine Policy database General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Environmental Systems Analysis Policy Behavioural change Milieusysteemanalyse Sufficiency policy ddc:300 Humans General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics |
| Zdroj: | F1000Research 11 (2022) F1000Research, 11 |
| ISSN: | 2046-1402 |
| Popis: | Sufficiency measures are potentially decisive for the decarbonisation of energy systems but rarely considered in energy policy and modelling. Just as efficiency and renewable energies, the diffusion of demand-side solutions to climate change also relies on policy-making. Our extensive literature review of European and national sufficiency policies fills a gap in existing databases. We present almost 300 policy instruments clustered into relevant categories and publish them as "Energy Sufficiency Policy Database". This paper provides a description of the data clustering, the set-up of the database and an analysis of the policy instruments. A key insight is that sufficiency policy includes much more than bans of products or information tools leaving the responsibility to individuals. It is a comprehensive instrument mix of all policy types, not only enabling sufficiency action, but also reducing currently existing barriers. A policy database can serve as a good starting point for policy recommendations and modelling, further research is needed on barriers and demand-reduction potentials of sufficiency policy instruments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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