Update: The conference on 14th of May will now take place online!
Making sustainable products visible in online retail: the example of fair fashion
The final conference of the ZuSiNa project "Making sustainable products visible in online retail: The example of fair fashion" will now take place online!
The aim of the conference is to provide you with practical insights and recommendations for action to increase the transparency and findability of sustainable products in online retail. Together with you, we would like to discuss how the digital transformation of online retail can help to promote sustainable consumption patterns.
The free online conference will take place on May 14, 2024 from 14:30 to 17:00. You will receive the corresponding Microsoft Teams link by e-mail one day before the conference starts.
ConPolicy is growing!
ConPolicy welcomes new employee Emily Bringmann
Since April, the ConPolicy team has been strengthened by M.Sc. psychologist Emily Bringmann. At ConPolicy, she is mainly responsible for quantitative and qualitative research projects dealing with processes of consumers’ decision-making.
Emily Bringmann studied psychology with a focus on judgment and decision-making at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg, while also undertaking additional training in fields of political and economic sciences. During her academic career, she worked as a working student on various research projects and was thereby able to build up sound methodological knowledge on the design, conduction and analysis of surveys and experiments. Most recently, Emily Bringmann successfully completed an internship at ConPolicy and is now looking forward to accompanying ConPolicy even further.
Success factors identified for good climate communication
German Federal Environment Agency publishes ConPolicy report on efficient approaches in climate communication
With the Climate Change Act, Germany has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. In addition to political and (regulatory) legal framework conditions, targeted public communication of climate change issues is particularly important for achieving these goals. The relevance of climate communication is also underlined by the Paris Agreement and the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Against this background, the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has commissioned a consortium of ConPolicy, co2online, klimafakten.de, Christopher Schrader and Dr. Mirjam Jenny, to develop a communication concept for international climate protection issues. As a basis for the next steps in the project, general efficient approaches for climate communication were identified in the first work package. The findings have been published in a report, which can be downloaded here.
Further information on the project can be found here.
New project for the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
Evaluation of the IT Security Label
During the purchasing process, it is difficult for consumers to assess to what extent digital services or smart consumer products meet IT security requirements. Against this background, the IT Security Label was developed by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), which is intended to create transparency for consumers about IT security by making the basic security properties of IT products recognizable at a glance. In addition, the label is intended to create incentives for companies to implement minimum standards in IT security in order to increase IT security on the market as a whole.
The IT Security Label will be evaluated for the first time on November 24, 2024 and thereafter every three years. Against this background, the BSI commissioned ConPolicy and imug I research to collect representative key figures for the evaluation as part of a research project. The central target groups of the IT security label - and thus the focus of data collection - are, on the one hand, manufacturers and service providers of consumer products and, on the other hand, consumers.
More information on the project can be found here.
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