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Copenhagen national workshop
Oct 2020 [Event reports, National workshops]
The eceee energy sufficiency project held a national workshop in Copenhagen in February 2020. It explored the role of local authorities in enabling and driving greater energy sufficiency, with practical examples of local action from Denmark and elsewhere.
London national workshop
Oct 2020 [Event reports, National workshops]
The eceee energy sufficiency project held a national workshop in London in February 2019. It focused on energy sufficiency in transport and urban planning. The workshop brought together stakeholders from the UK and elsewhere in Europe to discuss issues such as urban design, finding an acceptable replacement for cars, and infrastructure to support transport sufficiency.
Paris national workshop
Oct 2020 [Event reports, National workshops]
Report and presentations from the Paris national workshop arranged by the eceee sufficiency project (16 May 2019). The workshop offered French and international views on the concept of sufficiency and how it can be translated to action in sectors including buildings, appliances, urban planning and transport, and agriculture. It focused on involving stakeholders from different sectors in the discussion.
Energy sufficiency in buildings. Concept paper
May 2019 [eceee concept papers]
Concept paper on energy sufficiency in buildings. As part of this project, researchers at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy explore the issue of energy sufficiency in buildings and ways forward.
Energy sufficiency and rebound effects. Concept paper
Nov 2018 [eceee concept papers, Overview & framework, Potentials & modelling]
Managing the rebound effect. This concept paper discusses how energy sufficiency and the rebound effect interact. Rebound effects can constrain the energy savings from energy efficiency improvements. The paper examines the nature of these effects, and ask the question: can greater use of sufficiency policies and actions help to tackle negative rebounds, or will it create rebounds itself?
Energy sufficiency in products. Concept paper
Nov 2018 [eceee concept papers, Product policy]
How can energy sufficiency be practically applied in product policy, such as ecodesign and energy labelling? This report discusses this while asking if progressive efficiency is enough or if we need to go further to limit energy use.
Energy sufficiency: an introduction
Oct 2018 [eceee concept papers, Overview & framework]
Concept paper serving as an introduction to the energy sufficiency concept. As part of this project, researchers at Oxford University have developed the ‘energy sufficiency doughnut’ – a picture showing what we mean by energy sufficiency.
Rome national workshop
Apr 2018 [Event reports, National workshops]
Sufficiency in the context of Southern Europe. The Rome April 2018 workshop offered an opportunity to discuss the project's early findings in the context of a Southern European climate and culture.
Geneva national workshop
Feb 2018 [Event reports, National workshops]
Report and presentations from the Geneva national workshop February 2018. The workshop offered a first chance for a stakeholder audience to discuss the ideas that the sufficiency project was developing.
Association négaWatt (2018), La sobriété énergétique (in French)
Jan 2018 [Reports & books, Potentials & modelling]
This publication introduces and justifies the main energy sufficiency assumptions in the French négaWatt 2017–2050 scenario.
Mit Suffizienz mehr Klimaschutz modellieren (in German)
Jan 2018 [Reports & books, Potentials & modelling]
Carina Zell-Ziegler, Dr. Hannah Förster (2018). This study focuses on existing longer-term scenarios with stringent climate protection goals and how sufficiency is included when modelling these scenarios.
A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies
Jan 2018 [Potentials & modelling, Other papers]
Arnulf Grubler et al (2018). This paper develops a narrative of future change based on observable trends that results in low energy demand.
Stockholm national workshop
Dec 2017 [Event reports, National workshops]
Workshop report and presentations from the eceee energy sufficiency national workshop held in Stockholm in December 2017. The workshop focused on "reversed multiple benefits", i.e., seeing energy efficiency as a multiple benefit of another investment.
Are current policies promoting a change in behaviour, conservation and sufficiency?
May 2017 [Other papers, General policy]
Are current policies promoting a change in behaviour, conservation and sufficiency? An analysis of existing policies and recommendations for new and effective policies. Paolo Bertoldi (2017).
Sufficiency in energy scenario studies: Taking the potential benefits of lifestyle changes into account
Jan 2017 [Potentials & modelling, Other papers]
Sascha Samadi et al (2017). This paper argues that behavioural changes towards energy-sufficient lifestyles have considerable potential to contribute to public policy goals and may even be indispensable for achieving some of these goals.
Two types of ‘enough’: sufficiency as minimum and maximum
Jan 2016 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Laura Spengler (2016). The question ‘how much is enough?’ can be related to two different kinds of thresholds: minimum and maximum levels.
Sufficiency, Liberal Societies and Environmental Policy in the Face of Planetary Boundaries
Jan 2016 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Adrian Muller & Markus Huppenbauer (2016). This paper suggests that sufficiency should amend the notion of liberal society.
Energy sufficiency policy: an evolution of energy efficiency policy or radically new approaches?
Jan 2015 [General policy, Other papers]
Stefan Thomas et al (eceee 2015 Summer Study paper). The project ‘Energiesuffizienz’ funded by the German ministry for research has examined what energy sufficiency actually is.
When less is more - Sufficiency: Terminology, rationale and potentials
Jan 2013 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Corinna Fischer et al (2013). This paper is part of a research project dealing specifically with the question of how sufficiency can emerge in a society and how policy can help to shape this process.
Is Efficient Sufficient?
Mar 2010 [Product policy, Reports & books]
Is efficient sufficient? The case for shifting our emphasis in energy specifications to progressive efficiency and sufficiency. The original eceee 2010 report written by Chris Caldwell. Also find a seminar summary.
Enough is as good as a feast – sufficiency as policy
Jun 2007 [General policy, Other papers]
Sarah Darby (2007). The paper considers definitions of energy sufficiency, looks at an attempt to model future energy use in terms of efficiency and sufficiency, and discusses quantitative and qualitative aspects of sufficiency and how they might become institutionalised.
The Logic of Sufficiency
Jan 2005 [Reports & books, Overview & framework]
Thomas Princen (2005). With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible.
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