Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research
- This paper presents an approach for assessing lifestyle carbon footprints and lifestyle change options aimed at achieving the 1.5 °C climate goal and facilitating the transition to decarbonized lifestyles through stakeholder participatory research. Using data on Finland and Japan it shows potential impacts of reducing carbon footprints through changes in lifestyles for around 30 options covering food, housing, and mobility domains, in comparison with the 2030 and 2050 per-capita targets (2.5-3.2 tCO2e by 2030; 0.7-1.4 tCO2e by 2050). It discusses research opportunities for expanding the footprint-based quantitative analysis to incorporate subnational analysis, living lab, and scenario development aiming at advancing sustainability scienceThis paper presents an approach for assessing lifestyle carbon footprints and lifestyle change options aimed at achieving the 1.5 °C climate goal and facilitating the transition to decarbonized lifestyles through stakeholder participatory research. Using data on Finland and Japan it shows potential impacts of reducing carbon footprints through changes in lifestyles for around 30 options covering food, housing, and mobility domains, in comparison with the 2030 and 2050 per-capita targets (2.5-3.2 tCO2e by 2030; 0.7-1.4 tCO2e by 2050). It discusses research opportunities for expanding the footprint-based quantitative analysis to incorporate subnational analysis, living lab, and scenario development aiming at advancing sustainability science on the transition to decarbonized lifestyles.…
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| Document Type: | Peer-Reviewed Article |
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| Author: | Ryu Koide, Michael Lettenmeier, Lewis Akenji, Viivi Toivio, Aryanie Amellina, Aditi Khodke, Atsushi Watabe, Satoshi Kojima |
| URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-78143 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01018-6 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Source Title (English): | Sustainability science |
| Volume: | 16 |
| First Page: | 2087 |
| Last Page: | 2099 |
| Divisions: | Nachhaltiges Produzieren und Konsumieren |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence: |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
