Consumers4climate: How to position consumer organisations as relevant players in the debate against climate change?

After an introduction in chapter 1 the paper focusses in chapter 2 on the environmental impacts of consumption in Europe and the identification of the most relevant areas (“big points”), the integration of consumers into the socio-technical system and the challenges posed by digitisation. In chapter 3 follows a systematic elaboration of the impacts that environmental policies may have on consumers. Chapter 4 shows on the one side important design aspects of effective interventions in consumption and lifestyle and deals on the other hand with concrete policy proposals in particular proposals in the European Green Deal. The last chapter is devoted to the question of the potential role of consumer organisations in the recent debate on mitigation of climate change. The results were presented at a workshop at the General Assembly of the European Consumer Organisations on 14.11.19 in Helsinki.