ENTEG Professors Cucuzzella and Cao Join €2.9M ChangeAble Consortium on Climate Policy

We are pleased to announce that Professors Michele Cucuzzella and Ming Cao will play a key role in the newly funded ChangeAble research consortium, which recently received €2.9 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Human behaviour plays a critical role in both causing and addressing policy challenges surrounding transition issues. To enhance the effectiveness of policy efforts and meet climate goals, it is essential to understand how behavioural perspectives can be integrated into policy. The research programme, ‘Behavioural Insights for Climate Policy,’ aims to make climate policy more effective and easier to implement. Through targeted research, the programme will explore how behavioural insights can be embedded throughout the policy cycle. This programme is focused on developing actionable insights for the Dutch government to design and implement effective and feasible policies, thereby contributing to accelerating the transitions.

The project will concentrate on five policy areas, each of which must be explicitly addressed and investigated:

1. Making the built environment more sustainable
2. Making small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) more sustainable
3. Circular economy – reduced consumption and behaviours high on the R-ladder
4. Sustainable agriculture land use, and the food system
5. Financial/fiscal climate policy

The awarded project is the result of a collaboration between different knowledge institutions and societal partners who have combined their strengths to inform and engage with policymakers. TU/e, UvA, RUG, HvA, RU, Natuur & Milieu, TNO and the National Climate Platform (NKP), amongst others, bring together scientific expertise and societal involvement. Through this unique collaboration, the partners aim for impactful results that contribute to sustainability transitions.

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