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 -