From intention to action: Modeling student lifestyle carbon emissions and reduction scenarios

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112494 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112494 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112494 archive 353 disk0/00/02/12/63 2026-01-28 08:45:10 2026-01-28 08:45:10 2026-01-28 08:45:10 article show Zhu W. Li D. Liu W. 2002 0000-0003-3646-3456 From intention to action: Modeling student lifestyle carbon emissions and reduction scenarios pub POPJUS EQU Campus carbon neutrality, Low carbon behavior, Lifestyle carbon emissions, Influencing factors, Behavioral emission reduction potential assessment University students, as future decision-makers and practitioners, play a pivotal role in advancing carbon neutrality by 2060. Their awareness and behaviors are highly malleable during university education, with long-term impacts extending beyond campus boundaries. Using Peking University as a case study, this research quantifies the carbon footprint of students' lifestyles, develops a structural equation model (SEM) of low-carbon behavior mechanisms, and evaluates lifestyle-based emission reduction scenarios. Results show that food and transportation are the major contributors to students’ carbon footprints, reflecting a paradox of “high support but low motivation” toward low-carbon practices. While changes in individual cognition are necessary, they yield limited mitigation benefits. Scenario simulations demonstrate that synergistic interventions from campuses, communities, and broader society can amplify emission reductions by up to 40 %, offering a scalable pathway for universities to pioneer behavior-driven decarbonization. This study thus provides both empirical evidence and a practical framework for building zero-carbon campuses and cultivating societal transitions toward sustainability. 2026-05 published doi:10.1016/j.clrc.2026.100391 183 public Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 21 e100391 1 TRUE 26667843 info:eu-repo/semantics/article