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EUSEW 2024, Brussels
INFORSE at the Conference and Exhibition
June 11-13, 2024
EUSEW Session: Less is more? An overview of sufficiency INFORSE-Europe organised conference session and exhibited at the EUSEW 2024 - European Sustainable Energy Week 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.

INFORSE-Europe participated at the exhibition in the Charlemagne building (C-14, 2 fl.) and co-organised a policy conference event on the FULFILL Project on decarbonisation through sustainable lifestyle. The FULFILL project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Program.
Several hundred people followed the conference and visited the INFORSE-Europe's stall, and asked questions on sustainable lifestyle and looked into the latest issue of Sustainable Energy News and some of our brochures.
The INFORSE-Europe delegation consited of Gunnar Boye Olesen, Judit Szoleczky, and Maelys Renan. From the FULFILL project participants included Elisabeth Dutschke (Fraunhofer ISI) and Fiona

June 11-13, 2024
EUSEW 2024, Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium

Venue: Charlemagne Building, C-14, 2. floor
INFORSE-Europe is lead organiser of an exhibition featuring the EU funded FULFILL project.

June 12, 2024 - 9:30 - 11:00
EUSEW 2024 Policy Conference

Venue: Charlemagne Building, De Gasperi Room, 2. fl.
Session: Less is more? An overview of sufficiency policies to reduce emissions and increase quality of life.
INFORSE-Europe is lead co-organiser of the session together with partners of the EU funded FULFILL project.

New research, analysing 21,000 surveys, 50 citizen initiatives, 16 policies, and 3 workshops, shows how sufficiency policies can reduce emissions and increase well-being. The session covers results, impact quantification, National Energy and Climate Plan recommendations, and political commentary. From the Program presentations, comments and dialoge of a panel:
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Sufficiency, an introduction by Fiona Breucker (moderator), JDI, France
- How sufficient will Europeans be? Survey results by Elisabeth Dutschke, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
- Sufficiency on the ground, by Sergio Olivero, Rescoop, CONCERTI, Italy
- Policies for sufficiency, from the FULFILL project by Yves Marignac, Negawatt, France (online)
- What can sufficiency contribute? Results of an input-output model, Matteo Giacomo Prina, Eurac Research, Italy
- Introducing the Sufficiency Manifesto by Fiona Breucker, JDI
- How EU’s climate plans can include sufficiency, Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE-Europe, Denmark
- Comments by Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, MEP
- Comments by Frank Siebern-Thomas, Head of Unit DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, EC

More information:
EUSEW 2024 Session page
. and EUSEW 2024 exhibition page.
- FULFILL Project's Website and INFORSE's FULFILL project web page
- Publication on sufficiency policies in 4 countries climate plans (NECPs) (pdf)
- EUSEW video replay on youtube
- Presentations: Less is more? An overview of sufficiency policies to reduce emissions and increase quality of life (pdf 6 MB)

The description of the stand at EUSEW 2024 website:

INFORSE-Europe’s stand at the Energy fair featured the results of an EU Horizon funded research project called "FULFILL" on decarbonisation through sufficiency - sustainable lifestyles.
A sufficiency - sustainable lifestyle is increasingly recognised for its potential towards decarbonisation in Europe. Sufficiency actions and policies are contributing to reduce greenhouse gases, and at the same time increase wellbeing. It is a win-win.
The IPCCC has defined the 3 pillars of the energy transition: Sufficiency, Efficiency, Renewables (SER), and estimates that by 2050, sufficiency will have the potential to reduce emissions by more than 50% in almost all sectors, compared to current policy scenarios.
The FULFILL Project's research analysed what motivates people, which policies could motivate more, and how acceptable these sufficiency policies are deemed. The policies are in the sectors of housing, food, transport, and items. They will present interesting findings and case studies made by 50 citizens initiatives, 16 policies and 9,500 people surveyed e.g., pointing out differences in age, countries, and gender.
Finally, results from an input/output model will be presented, which was established to calculate the decarbonising effects of different policies. The stand shows how much our lifestyles are contributing now to decarbonisation and how much is the potential. How can citizens decrease their own carbon footprint and increase wellbeing? How can policymakers help? What can the EU do? What can the EU countries do? How the framework of RES (Renewables-Efficiency-Sufficiency) is possible in the brand new European CLEVER Scenario will also be presented.

The FULFILL project's research has been done in 5 EU countries by a consortium of researchers and CSOs: Fraunhofer Institute ISI (coordinator) and Wuppertal Institute in Germany, EURAC and POLIMI in Italy, negaWATT and Jacques Delors Institute in France, Green Liberty in Latvia, and INFORSE-Europe in Denmark

INFORSE-Europe is a network of 60+ civil society organisations in EU 27 and beyond, promoting sustainable energy and defending the environment, moving towards a 100% renewable-energy future through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and recently also through energy sufficiency / sustainable lifestyle.
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