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Behavioural change defines a change in the behaviour of an individual or a group. This change can be temporary, long-term, or permanent. The question of behavioural change and, more generally, changing lifestyles is a key issue in the ecological transition.

The adoption of energy-efficiency measures in micro/smaller SMEs is not only important to help mitigate the crucial challenge of climate change, but also to enable the survival of the European business fabric and economy.

Transport poverty is a problem that affects the daily lives of millions of people. If someone is transport poor, it means that they lack mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.

Transformation has become a key word in the sustainability debate. What does sustainability transformation mean? What hinders and what enables transformation?

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we all saw our cities deserted for a few weeks, without the traffic that usually engulfs and suffocates them day and night. We hoped that the crisis would represent an opportunity to rethink urban mobility, in a transition towards more sustainable alternatives.

Access to food is not equal across the world, as is common knowledge. Inequalities in food quality and access occur both between countries and regions and among people from different socioeconomic strata within the same territory. Quality here is a comprehensive...

Promoting sustainable food consumption choices is one of the priorities of the European Green Deal. But to understand food choices, we need to increase our understanding of values, priorities, obstacles and challenges faced by different social groups and across cultures and countries in Europe and beyond.

How can we better integrate a gender+ perspective into our exploration of social inequalities in the context of the climate crisis and the Green Deal? What can we learn from existing feminist methodologies about asking better questions, designing more robust methods, and refining our data analysis?

What are energy communities? Who do they typically include and what does it say about how they could be improved?