In mitigating the human causes of global warming, the climate change policy of Europe, and many member states, is concerned with (1) developing and diffusing energy conservation technology, promoting renewables, and (2) influencing the behaviour of households and consumers. In order to improve policy interventions aimed at influencing the behaviour of households and consumers in a pro-environment direction, the European Commission, under the Intelligent Energy for Europe programme, decided to co-fund the project Behave. The aim of this project is to draw lessons from the evaluation of 40 energy behaviour projects from all over Europe, provide an overview of best practices, and provide guidelines on developing and implementing successful policy interventions aimed at consumers. The project team consists of 10 countries.

Our project team has conducted an Analysis of theories and suggested a tool for developing interventions to influence energy - related behaviour.

Please find our findings below

1. Behavioural change: a sketch

2. Useful theories

3. Insights

4. Planning Models

PRECEED_PROCEED Model
Planning & Implementation cycle

5. Project context

Energy trends in the Household sector of EU27
New drive in energy efficiency improvement

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