Greening Households Behaviour Main Results of OECD Survey

Demand-side policies receive increasing attention from governments but enabling change in household environmental behaviour remains a challenge

• Objective: Generate empirically-founded guidance for policy-makers on what really works to foster greener behaviour

• How: Series of 3-year OECD households surveys (EPIC) covering five areas (energy, food, transport, waste, water). A 1st survey in 2008
• Status:
  • 2nd EPIC Survey implemented in 2011 in 11 countries including Israel.

  Sample > 11 000 respondents (approx. 1 000 per country)

• 3rd EPIC Survey in 2014

• Results:
• New publication – Greening Household Behaviour: Overview from the

2011 Survey (OECD, 2013)

• Forthcoming – Greening Household Behaviour: Main Results from the 2011 Survey and Policy Implications (OECD, 2014) – Complementary publication using econometric techniques