Sufficiency promotes a holistic approach to achieving low-carbon, high-wellbeing lifestyles through implementing supportive infrastructures, regulation and policies. It has the potential to offer numerous economic, social, health, and environmental benefits, making the EU’s climate goals more attainable and cost-effective while reducing dependency on fossil fuel imports and resource shortages. By avoiding unnecessary infrastructure investments and lowering energy system costs, sufficiency can create healthier diets, active lifestyles, reduced pollution, attractive urban spaces, improved well-being, reduced loneliness, and stronger community bonds.

This policy brief outlines key recommendations from the FULFILL project, a three-year, EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project to foster sufficiency at EU, national, and local levels.