Behavioral, information and monetary interventions to reduce energy consumption in households: A living systematic review and network meta-analysis
Climate policy has little time left to limit global warming to well below two degrees. However, a systematic assessment of the available scientific evidence — that is up to date — is not always available to understand what climate policies work, to what extent, in what context, why, and for whom. This is also true for demand-side policies, including those that use behavioral change to reduce energy demand and the related carbon emissions. There is an ever-burgeoning literature on policy interventions that target behavioral change among households, with new insights and evidence of their efficacy in different contexts. This living systematic review (LSR) and network meta-analysis (NMA) synthesizes this evidence to provide timely, rigorous and up-to-date insights on this topic. Our analysis finds that behavioral, monetary and information interventions taken together on average have a small to moderate effect on energy consumption of households.
Khanna, T., D. Danilenko, Q. Wang, L. Smith, T. Bhumika, A. Narayan Rai, J. Sánchez Canales, T. Repke, M. Callaghan, M. Andor, J. Elliott and J. Minx (2025), Behavioral, information and monetary interventions to reduce energy consumption in households: A living systematic review and network meta-analysis. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 21, 4, e70070
DOI: 10.1002/cl2.70070