A transition support system to build decarbonization scenarios in the academic community

A growing portion of scientists realises the need to not only alert about climate change, but also change their professional practices. A range of tools have emerged to promote more sustainable activities, yet many scientists struggle to go beyond simple awareness-raising to create concrete transiti...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLOS sustainability and transformation 2023-04, Vol.2 (4), p.e0000049
Hauptverfasser: Gratiot, Nicolas, Klein, Jérémie, Challet, Marceau, Dangles, Olivier, Janicot, Serge, Candelas, Miriam, Sarret, Géraldine, Panthou, Géremy, Hingray, Benoît, Champollion, Nicolas, Montillaud, Julien, Bellemain, Pascal, Marc, Odin, Bationo, Cédric-Stéphane, Monnier, Loïs, Laffont, Laure, Foujols, Marie-Alice, Riffault, Véronique, Tinel, Liselotte, Mignot, Emmanuel, Philippon, Nathalie, Dezetter, Alain, Caron, Alexandre, Piton, Guillaume, Verney-Carron, Aurélie, Delaballe, Anne, Bardet, Nelly, Nozay-Maurice, Florence, Loison, Anne-Sophie, Delbart, Franck, Anquetin, Sandrine, Immel, Françoise, Baehr, Christophe, Malbet, Fabien, Berni, Céline, Delattre, Laurence, Echevin, Vincent, Petitdidier, Elodie, Aumont, Olivier, Michau, Florence, Bijon, Nicolas, Vidal, Jean-Philippe, Pinel, Sébastien, Biabiany, Océane, Grevesse, Cathy, Mimeau, Louise, Biarnès, Anne, Récapet, Charlotte, Costes-Thiré, Morgane, Poupaud, Mariline, Barret, Maialen, Bonnin, Marie, Mournetas, Virginie, Tourancheau, Bernard, Goldman, Bertrand, Bonnet, Marie Paule, Michaud Soret, Isabelle
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Zusammenfassung:A growing portion of scientists realises the need to not only alert about climate change, but also change their professional practices. A range of tools have emerged to promote more sustainable activities, yet many scientists struggle to go beyond simple awareness-raising to create concrete transition actions. Here we propose a game-based transition support system MaTerre180’ , which has been designed to build scenarios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in the academic community. After providing a common scientific background about the context (global warming issue, its causes and consequences) and setting up a challenge (50% reduction of carbon budget by 2030), the participants belonging to the academic community and its governance bodies immerse themselves into fictional characters, to simulate the behaviour of real research groups. The game has been deployed during the year 2021, with six hundred participants from nine countries and 50 cities. Results explore clear pathways for GHG reductions between 25 and 60%, and a median reduction of 46%. The alternatives allowing the greatest reduction are video communication tools (36%), followed by mutualization of professional activities and voluntary cancellation or reduction, that represent 22 and 14% of reduction, respectively. The remaining 28% of reduction consists of transport alternative, relocation of professional activities, extended duration of some travels, etc. In addition, the analyses pointed out the importance of the guided negotiation phase to bring out some alternatives such as relocation, local partners and computing optimization. An added value of this transition support system is that the information it collects (anonymously) will be used to answer pressing research questions in climate change science and environmental psychology regarding the use of serious games for promoting changes in attitudes and behaviours towards sustainability, and including broader questions on how network structures influence “climate behaviour”, knowledge and the governance of the commons. Modestly, MaTerre180’ offers an innovative game-based transition support system to build scenarios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in the academic community. It is not simply a question of moving tokens on a virtual gameboard and a playful adjustment of practices, but rather a question of brainstorming about possible and desirable ways of remodelling research and teaching communities and embracing a new par
ISSN:2767-3197
2767-3197
DOI:10.1371/journal.pstr.0000049