Objective The EU sustainability strategy and the EU follow-up activities of the Johannesburg World Summit of Sustainable Development (WSSD) call for changes in consumption patterns. Measures to increase user awareness and promote sustainable consumption patterns depend on evaluations of the sustainability of alternative choices, including an evaluation of the rebound effect. Private and public initiatives to raise user awareness should take focus on the most effective measures for reducing impacts and promoting demand for sustainable solutions. Thaws Plan for Implementation calls for scientific approaches, including life cycle analysis (LCA), to be used for such evaluations. The objective of this study is to provide the EC and UNEP with an evaluation how a life cycle approach to sustainable consumption can be used in raising the user awareness and, more generally, in promoting sustainable consumption patterns. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionsocial sciences Keywords industrial ecology life cycle assessment Programme(s) FP6-NMP - Nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices: thematic priority 3 under the 'Focusing and integrating community research' of the 'Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area' specific programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) NMP-2002-3.4.3.3-2 - "Increasing the ""user awareness""" NMP-2002-3.4.3.3-1 - Optimisation of ""production-use-consumption"" interactions Call for proposal FP6-2002-NMP-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator NORGES TEKNISK - NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET EU contribution No data Address Hogskoleringen 1 TRONDHEIM Norway See on map Total cost No data