POPP
Policies to promote sustainable consumption patterns (POPP)
| Coordinatore | OEKO-INSTITUT E.V. - INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE OEKOLOGIE
Organization address
address: Merzhauser Strasse 173 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Germany [DE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙847˙815 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙437˙078 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-08-01 - 2011-07-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OEKO-INSTITUT E.V. - INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE OEKOLOGIE
Organization address
address: Merzhauser Strasse 173 contact info |
DE (FREIBURG) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ASSOCIACIO ECOINSTITUT D'ECOLOGIA APLICADA
Organization address
address: Torre dels Pardals 69 ent.4a contact info |
ES (Barcelona) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
BALTIJAS VIDES FORUMS
Organization address
address: ANTONIJAS IELA 3-8 contact info |
LV (RIGA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)*
Organization address
address: Leopoldring 3 contact info |
DE (Freiburg) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
INSTITUT FUR SOZIAL OKOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG GMBH
Organization address
address: Hamburger Allee contact info |
DE (Frankfurt am Main) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
KULUTTAJATUTKIMUSKESKUS
Organization address
address: Kaikukatu 3 contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Organization address
address: GOWER STREET contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The project aims at increasing knowledge about the impact of sustainable consumption (SC) policies on consumption patterns and on sustainability. This objective will be achieved by the following steps: A conceptual model will be developed as a framework for the whole project. Embedded in a broader overview of general SC strategies and instruments, research will focus on the need areas of food and housing. For these areas, sustainability potentials will be quantified in order to identify the potential that SC policies may tap. Impacts will then be explored at macro and micro-level that food and housing related SC instruments throughout Europe have on consumption patterns (Impact Assessment). Instruments to be looked at encompass regulatory and economic instruments, including fiscal and procurement policies, as well as communicative instruments, procedural regulation and societal self-regulation. Conditions of success and failure of these instruments will be identified. The instrument impact assessment is based on the analysis of statistical data, expert interviews, focus groups with consumers and workshops with public procurers. Having explored the impact of SC instruments on consumption patterns, a material flow analysis will be carried out to assess their impact on sustainability, including at international level. Options to enhance sustainable consumption patterns will be explored, especially with regard to designing, implementing and transferring effective SC instruments. On the basis of the project results, policy recommendations will be developed to be fed into the Marrakech process. The project is relevant to the Work Programme by identifying the impact of different types of policy instruments at disaggregated level; by evaluating the conditions of success and failure of SC strategies in an interdisciplinary effort; by developing links between the economy, environment and society and presenting innovative policies to make consumption more sustainable.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
This initiative focuses on the effectiveness of sustainable consumption (SC) strategies and instruments, particularly with regard to housing and food.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
The European 'Policies to promote sustainable consumption patterns' (POPP) project addresses gaps in the policy area of sustainable consumption and production (SCP). Project partners have developed a conceptual framework to show the relationship between SC policies, consumption patterns and sustainability. This structure has been applied to a number of important issues including consumption and production patterns and the sustainability potential of SC policies.
The framework also addresses how policy instruments for SC should be assessed and their impact on areas such as of housing and food. Furthermore, it can help identify the conditions needed to successfully implement SC instruments and alter consumption patterns, thereby leading to improved SC policies and instruments.
Researchers have also developed a consumption trend analysis that can estimate sustainability potential, and have created an inventory of SC instruments, which has helped to analyse 35 of these instruments. Relevant policies have been identified and described by the conceptual framework and ten instruments have been chosen for a detailed impact assessment.
The effects of policies have been separated out from intervening and contextual factors and used as a baseline for measuring the gradual impact of relevant policies. Impacts are translated into quantitative indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions and costs.
Consumption trend analysis has been used to compile information on the historic and future analysis of food and housing. Potential sustainability estimates have been determined for food and housing that can highlight areas for effective policy instruments.
The POPP initiative is playing a vital role in developing policies for promoting sustainable consumption that will help improve the quality of life for EU citizens.