Sweden’s largest research program on sustainable consumption

A research program that aims to stimulate a transition to more sustainable consumption in Sweden. The goal is to contribute to change through increased knowledge of how sustainable consumption that is currently practiced by a few can be scaled up and become more common. The focus is on the areas of food, holidays and home decor.

The program has been going since 2018 and has now gone into its second phase which is 2022-2025.

News

See PhD defense “Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption – Practices, Perspectives, and the Case of Food”

Image: Cover of thesis and Vishal Parekh. Welcome to Vishal Parekh’s PhD defense "Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption – Practices, Perspectives, and the Case of Food" at Friday, September 26th. The thesis aims to explore the potential roles and perspectives of...

New study: Swedish government’s climate policy is both unfair and harmful to the economy

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari Photo: Ninni Andersson and Kristian Pohl/The Government Offices of Sweden Cutting taxes on petrol and diesel not only increases emissions, it is also a poor use of public funds if the goal is to...

“This meeting has gained a new urgency” – The world’s largest conference on sustainable consumption held in Lund

Hanna Eggestrand Vaughan, Tim Jackson (Photo: Peter Nygaard Christensen), Eskil Engström The SCORAI Europe Conference 2025, a major international traveling conference on sustainable consumption, was held this year in Lund. Over four days, more than 500 researchers and...

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