Delningens potential

• This project investigates the potential increasing resource efficiency and reducing environmental impact and how the potential can be achieved for premises, transports and tools. The driving forces and obstacles for sharing have been studied, methodology for sustainability assessments and potential rebound effects have been investigated and ten success factors have been identified for upscaling sharing solutions: 1. Trust. For the sharing platform, the quality of the goods and for other users. 2. Accessibility. Geographically, temporally and in terms of access to systems and spaces. 3. Managed risk. Sharing is associated with risk, which needs to be managed and facilitated by existing regulations and which can be mitigated by commercial insurance. 4. Quality. The quality of the goods and services need to be at least as good as those the consumer would otherwise have bought for them to switch to sharing. 5. Simple and smooth transactions. By making it easier to share than to buy new, the interest in sharing solutions can increase. 6. Visibility. The fact that the knowledge and habit of sharing are so low means that the critical mass of users and objects is still too low. 7. Belonging. In several of the product categories, like transport and space, there is a need to feel that you belong - a sense of ”this is my space”. For sharing to scale up, design, business models and policy need to relate to that need. 8. Negative effects. The ability to limit and manage the negative effects of the sharing economy on conventional companies is an important factor for upscaling. 9. Access to capital is in many cases critical to growth, both to achieve a critical mass and long-term economic sustainability. 10. Regulation. Sharing requires regulations and policy support for better conditions with clear rules and tailor-made policy instruments for sharing. Several actors play an important role in building sharing potential; the role of the business sector to create new business models and good working conditions, the role of the financial sector to improve the conditions for sharing initiatives to be able to upscale, the role of national decision makers to both regulate and create conditions for sharing and manage the consequences of sharing, the role of the cities to create infrastructure, coordinate and be a driving force in itself to shape the development of sharing so that it contributes to sustainability and the role of research to develop innovative forms of sharing, continue to follow the development of sharing and develop ways to measure effects and prevent rebound effects.

• Delning av underutnyttjade resurser kan vara en viktig pusselbit i omställningen till en mer hållbar konsumtion. Projektet Delningens potential har tittat på potentialen att dela transporter, lokaler och verktyg. Projektet har finansierats genom det strategiska innovationsprogrammet RE:Source och genomförts av IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet i samverkan med KTH och Lunds universitet.

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