EDITS Annual Meeting 2025
- SMARTS Center
- Oct 28
- 2 min read
Global warming exceeded 1.5°C for the first time in 2024, marking a critical tipping point for humanity and amplifying social, economic, and environmental consequences that disproportionately impact marginalized communities (Poynting, 2024; United Nations, n.d.).
At the annual meeting of Energy Demand Changes Induced by Technological and Social Innovations (#EDITS), hosted by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and co-organized by the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), researchers and scientists from around the world came together to explore how low-demand pathways can achieve high benefits - “High with Low: What Works?”. Our participating EDITS–AIT team from the SMARTS Center, Asian Institute of Technology highlighted findings from ongoing research on climate justice and demand-side interventions that promote sustainable lifestyles and behavior change.
Key Insights from EDITS-AIT research:
1. Modeling Mitigation: Comparing direct (operational) and indirect (material- and transport-related) emissions across smart homes, buildings, and compact cities to strengthen evidence for demand-side measures.
2. Analyzing Lifestyle and Well-being Initiatives: Evaluating how lifestyle and behavioral initiatives can enhance well-being while reducing emissions.
3. Developing Gender and Climate Justice Frameworks: Designing intersectional frameworks for assessing climate and gender projects, identifying enablers and barriers to transformative change.
The SMARTS Center is committed to bringing regional voices and contexts from South and Southeast Asia into global climate conversations — advancing multidisciplinary research that aligns with multiple SDGs and promotes equitable, demand-side climate mitigation. Together, we can drive transformative, just, and sustainable futures.
Upcoming EDITS webinar with SMARTS’s Post-doctoral researcher Dr. Firuz Ahamed Nahid, on 5th November 2025:
Click below to learn more about the latest demand-side research at the SMARTS Center:
