Energy Sufficiency Policy Database

This folder contains the policy database belonging to the publication "Building a Database for Energy Sufficiency Policies" (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108822.2).

Version 1.0 of the database is replacing our initial version 0.1 from January 2022 of the sufficiency policy database. We made the following changes and revisions:

• We revised the structure (wording) of the columns policy strategy / measure-action and policy instrument to have a more logical cascade per sector
• We merged the sectors "agri-food" and "LULUCF" to "Land-use & food" and distributed the policies of the (very small) “energy” sector to the sectors they belong to
• We inserted new policies and literature sources
• We revised the wording of some policies and descriptions for better understandability
• We corrected instrument types and source pages / URLs
• We deleted a policy which was included twice and deleted 30 policies in the building sector because they contained too little sufficiency
• We specified the name as "Energy Sufficiency Policy Database"

Acknowledgements:

The database is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the project “EnSu - Energy Sufficiency in Energy Transition and Society” (https://energysufficiency.de/) within the framework of the Strategy „Research for Sustainability" (FONA) (http://www.fona.de/en) as part of its Social-Ecological Research funding priority, funding nos. [01UU2004A, 01UU2004B, 01UU2004C]. Responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors.