Ivanova, Barrett, Wiedenhofer, Macura, Callaghan and Creutzig (University of Leeds, BOKU Vienna, Stockholm Environment Institute, MCC Berlin); published in Environmental Research Letters (IOP Publishing)

Mitigation potential of household consumption options (Ivanova et al. 2020)

A systematic review of 53 studies published after 2011, which found 771 consumption options and summarised them as 61 options in transport, housing, food and other consumption. For each option the paper reports the greenhouse gas mitigation potential in tonnes of CO2-equivalent per person per year: the mean, the median, the 25th and 75th percentiles and the range across studies. The paper's figures order options by median. The values come mostly from high-income settings, depend on context (grid mix, the car replaced, the starting diet) and are not additive. Footprint figures quoted for context (about 6 t per person worldwide, 13.4 t North America, 7.5 t Europe, 1.7 t Africa and Middle East) refer to 2011.

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Emission cuts from household consumption options (Ivanova et al. 2020)

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Credit we give: Ivanova, D., Barrett, J., Wiedenhofer, D., Macura, B., Callaghan, M. & Creutzig, F. (2020). Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options. Environmental Research Letters 15, 093001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589. CC BY 4.0.
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Cite as: Diana Ivanova et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 093001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589

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Version of record (20 pages, including IOP's cover page), as deposited by the authors on Zenodo (record 4106717). Figures 3 to 6 (transport, other consumption, food, housing) and the summary Figure 7 show each study's value, the mean, the median and the quartiles for every option; the text gives means and medians for the leading options. 2,037,080 bytes, md5 dadf8184697204b76bf9b2b280d55788. The URL answers scripted requests (HTTP 200 on 2026-10-04); a person records it with uv run envdash snapshot add --source ivanova-2020 --file <path> together with the supplementary files.
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ERL_15_9_093001_suppdata.xlsx, the supplementary spreadsheet with every option and its statistics. A person opens https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589/data in a browser, passes IOP's bot check, and downloads the .xlsx listed under "Supplementary data". Record it with uv run envdash snapshot add --source ivanova-2020 --file <path>.
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Programme: Published 20 August 2020 (volume 15, issue 9) as a one-off topical review; no update is planned.
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