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Report of the three-day workshop and a ‘Conversations with the Earth: Celebrating Biodiversity through the Arts’ Evening convened at the 6th IPBES Plenary, Medellín, Colombia (17-24 March 2018). The event brought together a global transdisciplinary team of emerging biodiversity and ecosystem services experts to shape transformative thinking about the relationships between nature and human well-being, with a particular focus on the role of culture and Nature’s Contributions to People. High-definition versions of Figures 2 and 3 of the report are attached as separate files. &nbsp

This document containsChapter 5 of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.&nbsp

SHAPE ENERGY – ‘Social sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy’ – aims to develop Europe’s expertise in using and applying energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energySSH) to accelerate the delivery of Europe’s Energy Union Strategy. The project integrates and builds upon the experience of pre-existing networks and initiatives, including those of its 13 partners. For it to be successful and well disseminated at a European level, a robust and well-designed communication strategy has been fundamental since the project began in February 2017. The project involves and aims to reach out to a very broad range of stakeholders, represented by academics, policy, industry and communications practitioners. It is therefore important that the project’s communication strategy provides clarity on how to communicate, disseminate and exploit the project objectives and outputs to all members of the consortium and external stakeholders, in order to achieve positive and long-lasting results. Through strategic communication, the project aims to make better use of its results, including by sharing them with e.g. decision-makers to influence policy-making. This document states the communications objectives and targets at the midway point of the project (end of year 1). During the first year (01 Feb 2017 – 31 Jan 2018), SHAPE ENERGY was introduced to the European and national scenes through the creation of a project brand and the launch of an official website. Regular SHAPE ENERGY newsletters, as well as active engagement on our own social media channels, also allowed the project’s followers to stay informed and discover the many project outputs already published – in particular, the first half of 2017 focused on reports from the project’s scoping phase, and the second half focused on an increasing number of videos and blogposts. Furthermore, by making the most of the consortium’s broad geographical outreach, as well as contacts with various stakeholder groups, the project gained traction across several key EU countries. A full review of the extensive communication activities across the project to date is provided in Appendix 8.3. ‘SHAPE ENERGY communications activities to date’. We however want to go even further in the coming year; whilst our outreach to a wide audience has proven to be successful, more can be done to ensure even higher results. By taking stock of the achieved successes and lessons learned in 2017, this document provides a comprehensive communication, dissemination and exploitation plan for the final year of the project. As such, through providing further guidance and support to all SHAPE ENERGY partners, this document will improve existing methodologies and strategies, as well as provides a new evaluation and quarterly review system to ensure that the strategy remains on track, particularly for end of project outputs. It introduces all appropriate channels for each activity and details how we are using them in a timely manner. Toolkits and strategies for specific activity-types, as well as a timeline for the upcoming international and European energy agenda, together identify further opportunities to promote the project and ensure its success will be disseminated to its fullest potential. The last year of the project is key for SHAPE ENERGY, as the project’s ‘2020-2030 Research and Innovation Agenda’ (RIA) will be drafted and agreed among consortium partners on the basis of the various insights and learning gained thanks to the project’s activities. Its dissemination will culminate at the final pan-European conference, officially presenting the project results and completing the collection of the 500+ signatories that we are aiming for with the RIA document. Strategic communication will ensure maximum outreach and impact and seek to guarantee a future for the SHAPE ENERGY platform beyond its set end date.

The challenge: \ud * Technological progress and changes in energy supply are not sufficient for a transition to a low-carbon energy system; demand also needs to be considered. Energy efficiency and reducing total consumption - the topics of this bibliography - are typical elements of a demand side approach. \ud * The uptake of energy efficient technologies, and understanding how we might use less energy, represent big challenges for researchers, policymakers, practitioners and end-users themselves. \ud The aim: \ud * European energy policy has so far mainly relied on research from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have been significantly underrepresented. This bibliography aims to discuss different disciplinary perspectives on energy efficiency and using less and to demonstrate their relevance for energy policy. \ud Coverage: \ud * A major focus of this bibliography is on behaviour and behavioural change. The bibliography highlights the diversity of end-users and their needs, the impacts they experience, abilities, as well as the range of sites where energy is consumed. \ud * It also looks at how SSH research addresses more structural elements of demand - such as markets, institutions, and policy - and how these interact. \ud Key findings: \ud * There is no such thing as a one size fits all approach; different disciplines frame the problems of energy efficiency and using less differently, and do not always agree. Economics is very highly represented in research about energy efficiency, closely followed by Sociology. Other disciplines such as Urban Studies and Industrial Design are slowly becoming part of the work. \ud * Most disciplines focus mainly on mainstream types of users and use. Fewer studies focus on the exceptions - deviants, others, non-users or energy poor, excessive users - or low-energy practices such as sleep, music making or sports. \ud * Electricity is the main focus of most social science research on energy use and efficiency, possibly due to a focus on monitoring savings which is more difficult for gas and energy for hot water use. \ud * There is an overrepresentation of work on feedback devices and smart meters, in contrast to more everyday technologies such as water heaters or washing machines. Several studies urge for more study of this everyday material culture because it strongly shapes how users can engage in using less or using more efficiently; some technologies are simply built to have high energy use. \ud * Less research is done on the responsibility of stakeholders (other than the end-user) for the energy transition, especially the market. It is argued that markets are not neutral or depoliticised, but bear responsibility for the energy transition too. \ud * Dominant areas of research include: a focus on the gap between awareness and actual energy behaviour action; and rebound effects, which may arise when increased energy efficiency leads to lower costs for energy which in turn may lead to increased energy consumption. \ud * New areas of research include new demand side initiatives, services/business models and markets such as peer-to-peer, DIY, and community approaches to engagement. \ud * Most demand side approaches in the policy domain focus on cost reduction, education and communication. Insights from Social Sciences such as Sociology, Anthropology, Urban studies, Ethics, and Science and Technology Studies see less uptake in the policy domain.

The four SHAPE ENERGY Cross-cutting theme reports aim to provide accessible overviews of seminal and recent research on four salient energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) themes: (1) Energy and gender; (2) Energy and multi-stakeholder interests; (3) Energy justice; and (4) Energy and the active consumer.\ud \ud Energy-SSH disciplines have been under-utilised by policymakers, in the European context and beyond, in spite of their considerable potential. To assist in bringing the usefulness of such energy-SSH perspectives to the fore, the core of each report is centred around a review of seminal and recent research relating to each theme, which then provides the basis for each report’s recommendations to the European Commission, other EU projects and platforms, and indeed our SHAPE ENERGY project partners. Each report thus includes a 1-page Executive Summary, and 1-page Recommendations page, which can be treated as stand-alone resources.