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Nudging for climate: Using behavioral sciences for steering communities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fortify carbon sinks (CLIMATE-NUDGE)

  • Duration: 2020 - 2026
  • Status: Ongoing

CLIMATE-NUDGE utilizes knowledge from behavioural sciences, especially nudging, in planning choice architecture to help communities and individuals choose environmentally friendlier options while maintaining the freedom of choice.

Project management
Emilia Suomalainen
Project team
Ismo Entsalo, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Markku Karhunen, Antti Rehunen, Uula Saastamoinen (Syke); consortium leader Paula Salo (UTU)
Financiers
Research Council of Finland, Strategic Research Council of Finland (SRC), CLIMATE programme
Partners
University of Turku, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), PTT, University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
Subject area
Climate, Built environment, Research

The CLIMATE-NUDGE project develops and tests interventions with key stakeholders aimed at 1) reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport and 2) optimising the use of carbon sinks in forest management. The effectiveness of the interventions is compared to the modelled effectiveness of traditional methods.

In order to ensure the acceptability and fairness of the interventions, an ethical review is included in the process at all stages. The economic and health impacts will also be assessed. The societal goal is to create new scalable, cost-effective, health-promoting, and ethically sustainable ways to combat climate change in support of traditional regulatory and price-based instruments.

The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) is leading the transport work package with a focus on the climate impact assesment of different transport-related interventions and other policy measures. Syke is also participating in the health impact assessment.   

More information: Leading researcher Emilia Suomalainen, firstname.lastname@syke.fi