Greening Household Behaviour: The Role Of Public Policy

Greening Household Behaviour THE ROLE OF PUBLIC POLICY Greening Household Behaviour THE ROLE OF PUBLIC POLICY This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments of its member countries. Please cite this publication as: OECD (2011), Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264096875-en ISBN 978-92-64-06362-4 (print) ISBN 978-92-64-09687-5 (PDF) The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found on line at: www.oecd.org/publishing/corrigenda. © OECD 2011 You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given. All requests for public or commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to [email protected] Requests for permission to photocopy portions of this material for public or commercial use shall be addressed directly to the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) at [email protected] or the Centre français d’exploitation du droit de copie (CFC) at [email protected] FOREWORD Foreword H ousehold consumption patterns and behaviour have a profound effect on stocks of natural resources and the quality of the environment. The importance of taking the “demand side” into account is a key lesson arising from the OECD’s Green Growth Strategy (www.oecd.org/greengrowth). OECD governments have introduced a wide variety of measures to encourage people to take enviro