‘Consumer Behaviour and the Sustainable Development Goals’: book launch and workshop

9 Jun 2025

10:00 -17:00

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Open to: By invitation only

Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

1 Regent St

Cambridge

CB2 1GG

United Kingdom

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Join us for this one-day workshop on consumption, behavioural insights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Editors, co-authors and leaders in the field will meet for a full-day workshop to launch the ‘The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the Sustainable Development Goals’ book.

We will hear about their perspectives on consumption, behavioural insights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

With the 2025 midterm review of the SDGs underway, this workshop provides a critical platform for academic discourse. Now is a pivotal moment to assess progress, identify systemic challenges and inform strategies for achieving the 2030 Agenda. If anything, putting the SDGs and sustainable consumption at the heart of debate and practice has become even more important considering the recent US government-led rollback and backlash against sustainability research and politics. 

Thematic sessions

• ‘Food Consumption for a Sustainable Future’
• ‘Behavioural Insights into Sustainable Consumption’

Keynotes

• ‘The UN SDGs – A System-thinking Approach to Research and Education’
  Professor Mette Morsing, Director of the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, former UN PRME staff member
• ‘Climate Justice and Consumption’
  Professor Cass Sunstein, Founder and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. and Fellow at the El Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy

Workshop participants will include established as well as early career researchers from several leading institutions, including Munich Business School (MBS), University of Bath, Aarhus University, University of Bologna, University of The Creative Art, Georgetown University.

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This event is by invitation only. Please email the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy if you have any queries.