Lecture 10: Climate crisis & Consumer

Question 1

Thogersen | Consumers need considerable assistence (climate change)

What are the 6 categories Thogersen provided intervention for?

Answer 1

Life style changes
Reduction, necessities
Reduction, luxeries
Reduction, waste
Substitution
Adoption

Question 1

Ivanova et al. | Quantifying potential climate change mitigation of consumption

What were the different categories for which Ivanova et al. quantifed the potential climate cahnge mitigation of consumption?

Answer 1

Transport
Food
Housing
Other consumption

Question 2

Ivanova et al. | Quantifying potential climate change mitigation of consumption

What were the implications for “consumption options with high mitigation potentials”?

Answer 2

dietary shift

Question 3

Ivanova et al. | Quantifying potential climate change mitigation of consumption

What were the implications for “overcoming infrastructural lock-in”?

Answer 3

change land use practices

remove investment infrastructure supporting unstustainable and exctractive industries

Question 4

Ivanova et al. | Quantifying potential climate change mitigation of consumption

What were the implications for “overcoming institutional lock-in”?

Answer 4

Remove unstustainable subsidies in agriculture

offer support for alternatives

encourage just transition for animal farmers

better availability of low-carbon options in supermarkets, restaurants…

coordinated efforst of health organizations and governement

ban ads of high-carbon lock-in

Question 5

Ivanova et al. | Quantifying potential climate change mitigation of consumption

What were the implications for “overcoming behaviiral lock-in”?

Answer 5

encourage low-carbon shared-meals and diets

feedbacks for change in social norms and traditions around food

decouple veganism/vegetarianism from particular social identity