Programmes

Lifestyles and Environment

Our work aims to transform the provisioning and aspirational systems that shape everyday consumption – housing, transport, food, fashion and other consumer goods.

Overview

In our Lifestyles and Environment programme we work to make a broad range of environmental impacts visible and influence decision-making environments with the aim of making sustainable ways of living the default option

SPOON: Food Systems in transition

SL4N: Sustainable Lifestyle for Nature

PSLifestyle

Beacon for Sustainable Living

The Sustainable Lifestyles Action Academy

1.5-Degree Lifestyles

EU 1.5° Lifestyles

Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable

Happy Planet Index

SAFE: Sufficiency Approaches to Fashion and the Environment

Global Climate Revolution, André Oliveira Arruda, Brazil - Good Living 2050 Contest

Five Ways to Make Nature-Positive Living the Norm

Measuring the Biodiversity Footprint of Everyday Consumption Can Help Us Towards Nature-Positive Lifestyles

The Climate Crisis Cannot Be Solved Without Biodiverse Nature

Five hard questions the EU’s fashion EPR legislation must answer

Making Brands Pay for Overproduction: Europe’s Chance to Transform the Fashion System

A Climate for Sufficiency: Towards a new balance between desire, need, and planetary limits.

Escaping the Carbon Tunnel: Reconnecting Climate Action with Nature

Comparing the lifestyle carbon footprints of countries

Lifestyles, provisioning systems and aspirational systems

Can Advertising Solve Our Fast Fashion Problem?

Addressing Unequal Power in Textile Supply Chains

RELEASE: European Study – Climate Action as a Foundation for European Security

Resizing the Fashion System: Policy Brief Series

Nature-Positive Lifestyles: Unlocking Opportunities for People and Planet

A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Report

Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future

Citizen Guide to 1.5° Lifestyles

Learnings Cookbook

Reducing emissions through Sustainable Lifestyles (Slide Deck)

Policy Brief: Transport systems

Policy Brief: Housing

Policy Brief: Purchases

Policy Brief: Food systems

PB #7: Mainstreaming 1.5° Lifestyles: Building sustained security through climate action

Tue 7 October 2025 11:00 am Berlin

Online

Launch event | A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles

Hedda Roberts

Project Coordinator

Dr. Alessandro Galli

Research Director

Beatrice Meo

Project Manager

Viivi Toivio

Senior Data Analyst

Dr. Luca Coscieme 

Programme Lead Sustainable Lifestyles

Dr. Magnus Bengtsson

Policy Director

Dr. Lewis Akenji

Executive Director