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Research on climate change mitigation tends to focus on supply-side technology solutions. A better understanding of demand-side solutions is missing. We propose a transdisciplinary approach to identify demand-side climate solutions, investigate their mitigation potential, detail policy measures and assess their implications for well-being.

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W.B.d.B. acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Foundation for the Humanities and the Social Sciences; J.K.S. and F.W.G. from the UK ESRC (ES/K006576/1 and EP/K011790/1); C.H. from the Oxford Martin School; O.Y.E. and M.T. from the EU ERC (no. 154 336155) and N.D.R. from the EU ERC (no. 637462); I.M.L.A. from the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making (SES-1463492); J.C.M. from the German Ministry of Research and Education (03EK3046B) and L.M. from the German Academic Exchange Service.

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  1. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
    Felix Creutzig, William F. Lamb, Jan C. Minx & Anjali Ramakrishnan
  2. Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Felix Creutzig & Anjali Ramakrishnan
  3. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
    Joyashree Roy
  4. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Inês M. L. Azevedo & Wändi Bruine de Bruin
  5. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jan C. Minx & Julia K. Steinberger
  6. Partnership on Sustainable, Low-Carbon Transport, Berlin, Germany
    Holger Dalkmann
  7. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy
    Oreane Y. Edelenbosch & Massimo Tavoni
  8. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Frank W. Geels
  9. International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
    Arnulf Grubler & Narasimha D. Rao
  10. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Cameron Hepburn & Linus Mattauch
  11. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
    Edgar G. Hertwich
  12. Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
    Radhika Khosla
  13. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
    Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
  14. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
    Elke U. Weber

Authors

  1. Felix Creutzig
  2. Joyashree Roy
  3. William F. Lamb
  4. Inês M. L. Azevedo
  5. Wändi Bruine de Bruin
  6. Holger Dalkmann
  7. Oreane Y. Edelenbosch
  8. Frank W. Geels
  9. Arnulf Grubler
  10. Cameron Hepburn
  11. Edgar G. Hertwich
  12. Radhika Khosla
  13. Linus Mattauch
  14. Jan C. Minx
  15. Anjali Ramakrishnan
  16. Narasimha D. Rao
  17. Julia K. Steinberger
  18. Massimo Tavoni
  19. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
  20. Elke U. Weber

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Creutzig, F., Roy, J., Lamb, W.F. et al. Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change.Nature Clim Change 8, 260–263 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0121-1

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