New paper on supply-side and demand-side climate change strategies

How can we effectively reduce energy use and emissions?

While there is broad scientific consensus on the urgency of cutting emissions, the how remains contested. Many approaches equate reductions in energy use with demand-side strategies alone whereas supply-side strategies are framed as technical solutions only. 

The new paper provides a more comprehensive typology along the entry point (supply vs demand) and the scope of intervention (individual vs systemic).

This yields four research perspectives: techno-innovation, individual decision-making, industrial transformation, and embedded lifestyles.

The paper then challenges the supply-demand dichotomy more generally and proposes three promising research directions: provisioning systems, sufficiency corridors and social-ecological practices.

These perspectives challenge the supply-demand dichotomy, call for absolute reductions in production and consumption, and emphasize systemic interventions to offer entry points for transformative change.

Read the full paper here: Conceptualizing supply- and demand-side climate change mitigation: A typology and new research directions