@article{Cavalli:334237,
      recid = {334237},
      author = {Cavalli, Laura and Boeri, Chiara},
      title = {Carbon Neutral Lifestyles and NDCs: Advice and Policy  Perspectives},
      address = {2023-04-21},
      number = {2395-2023-593},
      series = {07.2023},
      pages = {29},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Climate change is one of the most important challenges for  the present generation, which is living in decades  characterized by a drastic increase in greenhouse gas  emissions, especially in the most developed countries: not  only the production realities – for which policies already  largely provide for mitigation measures – contribute to  emissions; but also, individual citizens to whom only a  small part of the envisaged measures are addressed. Among  the policies in which the demand side is little addressed  are the Nationally Determined Contributions, which embody  the efforts of each country to reduce national emissions  and adapt to the impacts of climate change, as stated in  the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 between the Member  States of the United Nations Framework Convention on  Climate Change (UNFCCC). Integrating advice on carbon  neutral lifestyles in NDCs and long-term strategies could  have positive implications in both social, economic, and  environmental terms, paving the way for more holistic and  inclusive policies, fundamental elements to pursue a  development that is sustainable in the short and above all  in the medium-long term. Taking this into account, the  present work, which forms an integral part of the studies  of WP 7 within the Horizon 2020 Project CAMPAIGNers-  Citizens Acting on Mitigation Pathways through Active  Implementation of a Goal-setting Network1, aims to  understand what the consequences deriving from the  inclusion of carbon neutral lifestyle advice in the  Nationally Determined Contributions and national climate  strategies would be, and to operationally implement  practical examples and ways to include behavioural aspects  of the carbon neutral lifestyle in the sectors studied,  based on national data and statistics from the countries  participating in the Project2. The innovative aspect of the  Project lies in integrating the quantitative aspects  deriving from the scientific evidence of official  statistics with qualitative aspects generated by the  collaboration between partners and stakeholders, in the  form of surveys and focus groups: in this way it is  possible to effectively overlap the spheres of economic and  environmental analysis with that of policy making,  providing a tool capable of directing strategies and  international agendas.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334237},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334237},
}