Worldwide demand for meat and other animal-based products has increased during the last 50 years as an outcome of rising income, population growth and the horizontal improvement of well-being standards.

Many scientific studies have drawn attention to the importance of changing food consumption patterns in order to achieve climate-sustainable goals, with a 20% reduction in meat consumption being a modest but acceptable scenario. 

Additionally, it is advocated that field-grown foods (e.g. grains, fruits, and vegetables) have a lower carbon footprint (CO2eq) and, therefore, a rather low impact on GHG emissions and climate degradation. Several barriers related to taste, health, cost, mood, culture, competence, and prestige declaring meat as a “symbol” of affluence and success make it difficult to influence consumers to adopt environmentally friendly diets.

As a solution, positive and motivational communication and gamification elements seem to gain consumers’ attention. In addition, traffic-light labelling systems assist in removing biases that prevent users from adopting better food choices. 

Inoqo’s mobile application empowers users to track their accumulated grocery purchases passively and consequently informs them about the carbon emissions (i.e. GHGs total equivalent-CO2eq).

In CHOICE, the app will capitalise on a plethora of social engagement methods (e.g. nudging techniques, controlled trials and behavioural models) and large-scale “green marketing” campaigns, attempting to further visualise the impact of atomic choices by providing information on their multiplying effect, when adopted at mass scales, leveraging the results from CHOICE IAM models. This way, users will be presented with the global perspective of atomic choices, fostering their sense of belonging into wider communities of “global sustainable citizens” and feeding the nudges and social incentives presented in the app.

In the Austrian pilot, more than 1.000 Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) consumers and active users of the Inoqo app are expected to be involved, targeting more consumers who are not actively motivated to adopt healthy and sustainable food consumption as part of their lifestyle. Rewarding mechanisms, challenges and personalised messages based on the analysis related to targeted personas and socio-economic profiles will offer impactful, simplified, yet scientifically sound information on the user’s individual consumption habits and their outcome on a global level. Further, hand-picked data storytelling visuals and text shall be adopted in certain challenges.

• Inoqo app.
• Data storytelling visuals and narratives.
• Randomized controlled Trials framework.
• CHOICE IAM models (FELIX, Globiom) through their interactive interfaces.
• Behavioural models.

• 1000+ newly registered users, a 5% increase in the number of returning users and 2+ monthly challenges with CHOICE-related objectives for a duration of 12 months;
• Increase the percentage of sustainable consumers and the less actively involved citizens.

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