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Table 1.

Examples of social impact from business research aiming to contribute to climate change mitigation

Target behaviour	Intervention	% improvement as reported by authors	Study context	Industry collaboration	Reference
Conserve energy	Monetary and social reward (grade points with a descriptive comment)	6.40	Company	Yes	Handgraaf et al. (2013)
Conserve energy	Pro-environmental initiative: the environment champions	5.40	Company	Yes	Nye and Hargreaves (2010)
Conserve energy	Gamification: a virtual pet game	13	Company	Yes	Orland et al. (2014)
Conserve energy	Gamification: earn points, badges and trophies for energy saving	12	Household	No	Mulcahy et al. (2021)
Recycle and conserve energy	Poster (environmental information) and training session on sustainability	Not reported	Company	No	Jones et al. (2012)
Recycle	Provide each employee a personal recycling box	80	Company	Yes	Holland et al. (2006)
Reuse hotel towels	Pledge towel reuse and signal pledge with pin	40	Hotel	Yes	Baca-Motes et al. (2013)
Reuse hotel towels	Message: most other guests in this room reuse towels	44	Hotel	Yes	Goldstein et al. (2008)
Waive daily routine hotel room clean	Offer cost sharing, provide drinks voucher for guest share	42	Hotel	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2019)
Waive daily routine hotel room clean	Change of default to free hotel room cleaning upon request	63	Hotel	Yes	Knezevic Cvelbar et al. (2021)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Message: better to return to buffet for more than to overfill	21	Buffet	Yes	Kallbekken and Sælen (2013)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Reduce plate size by 3 cm	20	Buffet	Yes	Kallbekken and Sælen (2013)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Stamp every time family eats up, prize for all stamps	38	Buffet	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2020)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Message: Chairman endorses clean plate campaign	7	Buffet	Yes	Zhu et al. (2024)
Do not dispose of food that can still be used	Replace large untransparent bins with small transparent	73	Commercial kitchen	Yes	Chawla et al. (2020)
Shorten shower time in hotel	Real-time feedback on time, water and energy use	11	Hotel	Yes	Tiefenbeck et al. (2019)
Shorten shower time in hotel	Message and real-time feedback on shower duration	26	Hotel	Yes	Pereira-Doel et al. (2024)
Use sustainable napkins at buffet	Change default to recycled paper napkins	95	Buffet	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2019)

Target behaviour	Intervention	% improvement as reported by authors	Study context	Industry collaboration	Reference
Conserve energy	Monetary and social reward (grade points with a descriptive comment)	6.40	Company	Yes	Handgraaf et al. (2013)
Conserve energy	Pro-environmental initiative: the environment champions	5.40	Company	Yes	Nye and Hargreaves (2010)
Conserve energy	Gamification: a virtual pet game	13	Company	Yes	Orland et al. (2014)
Conserve energy	Gamification: earn points, badges and trophies for energy saving	12	Household	No	Mulcahy et al. (2021)
Recycle and conserve energy	Poster (environmental information) and training session on sustainability	Not reported	Company	No	Jones et al. (2012)
Recycle	Provide each employee a personal recycling box	80	Company	Yes	Holland et al. (2006)
Reuse hotel towels	Pledge towel reuse and signal pledge with pin	40	Hotel	Yes	Baca-Motes et al. (2013)
Reuse hotel towels	Message: most other guests in this room reuse towels	44	Hotel	Yes	Goldstein et al. (2008)
Waive daily routine hotel room clean	Offer cost sharing, provide drinks voucher for guest share	42	Hotel	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2019)
Waive daily routine hotel room clean	Change of default to free hotel room cleaning upon request	63	Hotel	Yes	Knezevic Cvelbar et al. (2021)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Message: better to return to buffet for more than to overfill	21	Buffet	Yes	Kallbekken and Sælen (2013)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Reduce plate size by 3 cm	20	Buffet	Yes	Kallbekken and Sælen (2013)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Stamp every time family eats up, prize for all stamps	38	Buffet	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2020)
Eat all food taken from a buffet	Message: Chairman endorses clean plate campaign	7	Buffet	Yes	Zhu et al. (2024)
Do not dispose of food that can still be used	Replace large untransparent bins with small transparent	73	Commercial kitchen	Yes	Chawla et al. (2020)
Shorten shower time in hotel	Real-time feedback on time, water and energy use	11	Hotel	Yes	Tiefenbeck et al. (2019)
Shorten shower time in hotel	Message and real-time feedback on shower duration	26	Hotel	Yes	Pereira-Doel et al. (2024)
Use sustainable napkins at buffet	Change default to recycled paper napkins	95	Buffet	Yes	Dolnicar et al. (2019)

Source(s): Authors’ own work