Potential Climate Benefits of Digital Consumer Innovations

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/98036 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/98036 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/98036 archive 353 disk0/00/01/80/61 2022-06-13 13:27:47 2022-06-13 13:27:47 2022-06-13 13:27:47 article show Wilson C. 8428 0000-0001-8164-3566 Kerr L. Sprei F. Vrain E. Wilson M. Potential Climate Benefits of Digital Consumer Innovations pub ECE S3 TISS consumers, digital innovations, climate change, mobility, food, homes, energy Digitalization has opened up a wealth of new goods and services with strong consumer appeal alongside potential emission-reduction benefits. Examples range from shared, on-demand electric mobility and peer-to-peer trading of electricity, food, and cars to grid-responsive smart appliances and heating systems. In this review, we identify an illustrative sample of 33 digital consumer innovations that challenge emission-intensive mainstream consumption practices in mobility, food, homes, and energy domains. Across these domains, digital innovations offer consumers a range of potentially appealing attributes from control, choice, and convenience to independence, interconnectedness, and integration with systems. We then compile quantitative estimates of change in activity, energy, or emissions as a result of consumers adopting digital innovations. This novel synthesis of the evidence base shows clear but variable potential emission-reduction benefits of digital consumer innovations. However, a small number of studies show emission increases from specific innovations as a result of induced demand or substitution effects that need careful management by public policy. We also consider how concurrent adoption of digital consumer innovations across mobility, food, homes, and energy domains can cause broader disruptive impacts on regulatory frameworks, norms, and infrastructures. We conclude by arguing for the importance of public policy in steering the digitalization of consumer goods and services toward low-carbon outcomes. 2020 published Annual Reviews 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-082424 333 public Annual Review of Environment and Resources 45 1 113-144 TRUE 1545-2050 Social Influence and Disruptive Low Carbon Innovations (SILCI, H2020 678799) yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/678799/EU//SILCI info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess