Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles in a Climate Emergency
Channel: 10YFP Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme
Date: 2022-05-10

Webinar on 9 May 2022, 14.30-15.45 CEST

The IPCC report is clear that we must address demand-side emissions in order to reduce our impact on the planet. UNEP’s new Policy Brief Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles in a Climate Emergency offers insights on what forces shape our lifestyles as well as what structural solutions – such as choice editing – can help governments and businesses kickstart the transition to sustainable lifestyles.

This event delves into how we can change how we consume and explores how sustainable living can enable circularity. Policy makers recount how and why some policy strategies have been successfully (or less successfully) implemented. We also explore the positive externalities of health and well-being that can be achieved when we address environmental issues.

Agenda
0:00 Introduction
7:30 Opening keynote
Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, public policy think tank of the Government of India
18:53 IPCC Report: Lifestyle behavior change is key IPCC AR6 WG3
Julia Steinberger, lead author of 6th Assessment WG3 Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
28:56 Enabling sustainable living from an intergovernmental perspective
Elisa Tonda, Head of Consumption and Production Unit, UNEP
34:59 The Swedish case: first country to target consumption-based emissions
Emma Nohrén, Chair of the Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives (Miljömålsberedningen), Swedish Parliament
50:05 The policy brief, lifestyles & choice editing, key sectors
Magnus Bengtsson, Policy Lead, Hot or Cool Institute
1:02:32 Panel Discussion

Moderator
- Marcus Carson, Co-lead of One Planet Network Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme, Stockholm Environment Institute

Policy Brief: https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/knowledge-centre/resources/enabling-sustainable-lifestyles-climate-emergency
Factsheet: https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/knowledge-centre/resources/factsheet-pb-enabling-sustainable-lifestyles
Webinar highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBqtrJ5wiJ0