French respondents also thought the government should model environmentally friendly behaviour by reducing its car fleet, cutting energy consumption of public buildings and doing away with Christmas lights.
"Many major chains are taking their own action to incentivise environmentally friendly behaviour, for example, offering a discount on drinks if customers bring their own cup," the environment minister wrote in a letter to Lib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder.
On the one hand, there are those who argue we must educate and drive awareness, and that this will be enough to engage consumers in more environmentally friendly behaviour.
We are very clear that none of this money will come to government; we are not trying to tax people, we are trying to change people's behaviour, encourage much more environmentally friendly behaviour".
It entails tons of dilemmas: how to incentivise environmentally friendly behaviour with end users when they don't own the product; how to shift to toll resource consumption instead of wages; how to maintain a reasonable level of taxes in a sharing economy where people rent out their private homes or bring people in their car without destroying this intelligent movement.
Factors having a statistically significant relation with the different forms of renewable energy are gender, age, education level, head of household education level, environmentally friendly behaviour and having an occupation, studies or interests related to environment, technology or engineering.
This article aims to analyse how environmental accounting instruments can be linked to corporate reward systems for motivating a company's employees to embrace more environmentally friendly behaviours.
As expected, the obligation-based intrinsic motivation mediates the relationship between environmental self-identity and environmentally-friendly behaviour.
In this research, we aimed to test whether, and if so, via which process environmental self-identity is related to environmentally-friendly behaviour.
Used effectively, green taxes should encourage a shift towards environmentally-friendly behaviour.
