Climate-friendly lunch purchases

This research paper, part of the SEI-led CANDIES project, evaluates the effectiveness of carbon footprint labels on consumer food choices through an in-store experiment at Urban Deli in Stockholm.

• The study found that while carbon footprint labels improved the capability and opportunity for consumers to select climate-friendly food, they did not successfully motivate consumers to actually choose those options.
• The authors suggest that labels alone may be insufficient to drive behavioral change and should be paired with other interventions to increase motivation, although they remain useful for increasing knowledge of environmental impacts.
• The research utilized a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, framing the analysis of consumer behavior through the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Climate-friendly lunch purchases. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-friendly-lunch-purchases/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate-friendly lunch purchases. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-friendly-lunch-purchases/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024climatefriendly, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate-friendly lunch purchases}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-friendly-lunch-purchases/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }