TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Best, Benjamin
A1  - Thema, Johannes
A1  - Zell-Ziegler, Carina
A1  - Wiese, Frauke
A1  - Barth, Jonathan
A1  - Breidenbach, Stephan
A1  - Nascimento, Leonardo
A1  - Wilke, Henry
T1  - Building a database for energy sufficiency policies
N2  - 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.
T2  - F1000Research
VL  - 11
Y1  - 2022
UN  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-80293
U6  - https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108822.2
DO  - https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108822.2
ER  -