
Changing Behaviour
The Changing Behaviours research group provides insight on why and how people make decisions on climate-related activities, with a view to helping researchers, policymakers and businesses identify effective interventions to promote environmentally-friendly behaviours among citizens and firms.
Researchers from this group explore the behavioural mechanisms on which policymakers and businesses can capitalize to improve the private provision of environmental goods (such as switching to environmentally friendly practices and technologies) at least cost. They aim to identify opportunities to apply behavioural and experimental economics to inform environmental policies and practices.
To this end, researchers from this group study attitudes to new business practices, different consumer behaviours, novel technologies and environmental risks. More broadly, they also explore the context of the political economy in which decisions by individuals in the public and private sector – consumers, workers and decision-makers – are made. These insights can help researchers, policymakers and businesses to identify effective interventions to promote climate-friendly decisions.
Research

Adding fuel to fire? Social spillovers in the adoption of LPG in India
This paper focuses on the Indian context and investigates, over a relatively long time-frame, whether social spillover effects might have played a role in a household's decision to use LPG, and how these effects varied across different sub-populations. read more »
Policy

Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on ‘Heatwaves: Adapting to Climate Change’
This submission to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry on ‘Heatwaves: Adapting to Climate Change’ focuses on the importance of communicating with the public to raise awareness of the increasing incidence of heatwaves. read more »
- Letter to Congressman Lamar Smith in regard to the testimony given by Dr Bjorn Lomborg to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Conducting Global Climate Change Negotiations
- Submission to inquiry on ‘Climate: public understanding and policy implications’ by the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology
News

Interview about carbon offsetting for air travel
Michal Nachmany talks on the Victoria Derbyshire show (46 mins in) about why carbon offsetting is a good way to deal with essential travel, but the real solution is in research and development of electric vehicles for short-haul flights and alternative biofuels for longer-distance travel. read more »
Recent events
Research lead

Antony Millner
Institute staff

Josh Burke

Anomitro Chatterjee

Declan Conway

Patrick Curran

Roger Fouquet

Greer Gosnell

Candice Howarth

Daire McCoy

Sara Mehryar

Michal Nachmany

Simon Quemin

Christian Siderius
Associates and Visiting Researchers

Babatunde Abidoye

Audrey Alejandro

Stefano Carattini

Shaikh Eskander

Daniel Heyen

Elisabeth Isaksen

Ganga Shreedhar

Alessandro Tavoni

Jason Wong

Dimitri Zenghelis
PhD Students

Sanchayan Banerjee

Julien Picard
