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Carl Dalhammar

Carl Dalhammar

Professor

Carl Dalhammar

How Can We Persuade Consumers to Purchase More Sustainable Products? A Review of European Legal Developments

Author

  • Carl Dalhammar
  • Eléonore Maitre-Ekern

Editor

  • Maria Santos Silva
  • Andra Nicolussi
  • Christiane Wendehorst
  • Pablo Salvador Coderch
  • Marc Clément
  • Fryderyk Zoll

Summary, in English

A key strategy to support the vision of a circular economy is to promote the consumption of more sustainable products. Both the EU and its Member States have therefore adopted several policies to support this objective. We review these policies and discuss their potential to trigger changes in consumer behaviour. The discussion is focused on five ‘points of intervention’: (1) regulatory choice editing; (2) persuading consumers to buy sustainable products at the point of purchase; (3) avoiding destruction of unsold/returned products; (4) promoting maintenance and repair of existing products; (5) ensuring that consumers make sustainable choices at the ‘end-of-use’.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Law

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781032662008