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Articles Household consumption patterns and behaviour have an
impact on stocks of natural resources, environmental quality and
climate change. This is expected to increase significantly in
the future. In response, governments have introduced a variety
of measures to encourage people to take into consideration the
environmental impact of their purchases and practices. These may
include environmentally related taxes, energy performance
standards for homes, carbon dioxide emission labels for cars,
and financial support to purchase solar panels, among others.
Nevertheless, understanding and influencing household behaviour
remains a challenge for policy makers. This publication presents
the main results and policy implications of an OECD survey of
more than 10 000 households in 10 countries: Australia, Canada,
the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the
Netherlands, Norway and Swe