The IPCC clearly acknowledges that behaviour changes and demand-side management are able to substantially limit the reliance on Carbon Dioxide Removal strategies, anyway essentials to stay below 1.5°C of warming…
Jacopo Crimi
12 articles written by Jacopo Crimi
End of this week, we will be holding a workshop here at Milano’s Politecnico, with the aim to define a clear framework distinguishing concepts, aims and methods for modeling human behaviour in IAMs…
Even the most popular and proven nudges sometimes fail spectacularly, prompting the targeted individuals to do exactly the opposite of what the nudgers intended...
UCLA Anderson Review
According to ILO, the transition to a green economy will inevitably cause job losses (around 6 million till 2030) in certain sectors but they will be more than offset by new job opportunities (approx 24 Millions ) in others…
By analyzing “nudged” retirement plans in Sweden since 2000, researchers found that these decisions were indeed persistent and seem to last nearly two decades… “if not forever”.
The jury is still out on the effectiveness of nudge interventions in the longer term...
Andrea Reda, Head of Regulatory Policy at CEPS in Brussels
While Google is nudging its employees in eating less meat to improve their health, it is also helping in reducing further the company’s carbon footprint…
Nudges are highly cost effective, often more so than the traditional policy interventions…
Nobel laureate Kahneman’s recognizes his conclusions on “priming” in the book “Thinking Fast and Slow” were supported by underpowered studies…
After the creation of the Qatari nudge unit in August last year, other countries in the region are also planning similar units, such as in Kuwait and Lebanon …
A recent article on the 1843magazine from The Economist discusses how researchers in the Silicon Valley design their apps to increase people’s motivation and decrease difficulty of taking action…
Two recent web articles about Nudges units in Australia and India provides interesting examples on how simple nudges work effectively in different countries. For instance…