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The impact of behavioral science experiments on energy policy. Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options. Integrating global climate change mitigation goals with other sustainability objectives: a synthesis. IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ☌ (eds Masson-Delmotte, V. in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (eds Edenhofer, O. The Critical Role of Buildings (IEA, 2019) 2 ☌ and SDGs: united they stand, divided they fall? Environ. Alternative pathways to the 1.5 ☌ target reduce the need for negative emission technologies. A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 ☌ target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies. Beyond technology: demand-side solutions for climate change mitigation. While modest, this potential should be viewed in conjunction with the need for de-risking mitigation pathways with energy-demand reductions.Ĭreutzig, F. We have estimated a global carbon emissions reduction potential of 0.35 GtCO 2 yr −1, although deploying the most effective packages of interventions could result in greater reduction. Deploying the right combinations of interventions increases the overall effectiveness. Our meta-regression confirms that both monetary and non-monetary interventions reduce the energy consumption of households, but monetary incentives, of the sizes reported in the literature, tend to show on average a more pronounced effect. We extracted 360 individual effect sizes from 122 studies representing trials in 25 countries. We have performed a machine learning-assisted systematic review and meta-analysis to comparatively assess the effectiveness of these interventions in reducing energy demand in residential buildings. Here, we address this gap for interventions aimed at changing individual households’ use of existing equipment, such as monetary incentives or feedback. Despite the importance of evaluating all mitigation options to inform policy decisions addressing climate change, a comprehensive analysis of household-scale interventions and their emissions reduction potential is missing.