Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

Based on a literature review incorporating papers written before July 2021, this report presents behavioural factors affecting peoples’ decision to invest in socially responsible investment (SRI)...

This study experimentally tests the effectiveness of possible new variants for car eco-labels and promotional material.

The EU has committed to halving food waste at the retail and consumer level following SDG 12.3 by establishing legally binding reduction targets and enabling their reach...

Food waste is a pressing issue that has significant environmental, social, and economic consequences. In line with its commitment to the global Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 of halving...

Behavioural interventions, such as nudges, are increasingly being proposed to achieve behavioural change, such as reducing consumer food waste. Consumer food waste is a pertinent...

Food waste is a global concern already identified to be addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (12.3) and the EU policy agenda under the Circular Economy Action Plan...

Creating empirical evidence using rigorously implemented experiments is an important precondition to designing and administering effective interventions to reduce consumer food waste. This report outlines, in an accessible...

This behavioural experiment with farmers assessed the effect of two policy features of the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy on the adoption of environmentally friendly practices: (1)...

Municipal solid waste management systems vary greatly across Europe. However, due to the Waste Framework Directive and the Circular Economy Action Plan, they share...

This Focus, a collaboration between Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Climate Change, features a broad range of Review and Opinion content on the role of human behaviour in adaption to climate...