Action in the UK - Individual and community action
Community initiatives and individual behaviour change
We wanted to look at how community initiatives or groups encourage their members to take action to help tackle climate change. We also wanted to look at other areas such, as health, to see if we could learn from different approaches and, overall, how local authorities can help the success of initiatives. The joint Government study to look at these issues was announced in the Energy Review in 2006 and the outputs of the study are below. The Government response to this study will be published in spring 2008, as part of announcements following Defra's Comprehensive Spending Review settlement.
- Summary of the study prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Energy
(80 KB) - Mobilising individual behavioural change through community initiatives: lessons for climate change (420 KB) - Research report by the Centre for Sustainable Energy in partnership with Community Development Xchange.
- Mobilising Action on Climate Change: The Role of the Third Sector and Local Government – Workshop output report by the Centre for Sustainable Energy (560 KB)
- Overview of Government policy impacting on the third sector and local government – prepared by the Energy Saving Trust as background reading for workshop participants (300 KB)
- Making carbon personal? A snapshot of community initiatives – a scoping report by the Centre for Sustainable Energy (300 KB)
This study does not represent the views of any Government department, and should not be regarded as current or future policy.
Page last modified: 15 February 2008
Page published: 15 February 2008