BEHAVE 2020-2021 – 6th Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency

Organised by the European Energy Network (EnR), the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), BEHAVE 2020-2021 is the 6th conference that focuses on the application of behavioural insights in energy efficiency.

The bi-annual conference gathers policymakers, academia, industry and practitioners to share ideas and experiences to promote energy efficiency and climate mitigation behaviours among the wider public.

BEHAVE 2020-2021 will include plenary sessions and parallel sessions. The conference will produce two publications:

1. Conference proceedings will consist of accepted abstracts and be released during the conference;
2. A special issue in the journal Energy Policy, which will consist of invited papers based on screening of the accepted abstracts.

Topics of the conference

• Behavioural insights and their application in the developing world
• Integrating behavioural insights in international development assistance
• Applying behavioural insights in the private sector, organisations and business models
• Promoting sustainable energy behaviours: policy instruments, interventions and evaluation of effects
• Behavioural insights for effective climate change mitigation
• Behavioural potential to facilitate the smart grid and demand response
• Approaches and strategies to deliver effective and scalable behavioural interventions
• End-use energy efficiency in buildings and organisations
• Users behaviour in transport and mobility
• Behaviour integration into energy modelling for policy development
• Applying behavioural insights to increase energy efficiency financing
• Behavioural solutions for small and medium enterprises
• Equity, ethics and inclusion in behavioural-oriented policy approaches
• Multidisciplinary approaches to energy behaviours for achieving the SDGs
• Community Engagement
• Contribution of behaviour in energy sufficiency

Information

BEHAVE is taking place virtually from April 21 to April 24 2021.

For more information about registration and the programme: visit the website.