Attitudes and Social Influence powering acceptance of digital technologies to reduce individual carbon emissions

The digitalisation of daily life and its impact on resource consumption and emissions has not been studied systematically. A Tackling climate change requires changes to daily life in mobility, food, homes and energy domains. Digitalisation is a major trend reshaping daily life across all these domains. The digitalisation of daily life and its impact on resource consumption and emissions has not been studied systematically. A new integrated science is needed on digitalised daily life and climate change. The aim of the iDODDLE project is to develop a new thematic, cross-domain, inter-disciplinary science of digitalised daily life in support of action on climate change. The data deposit here relates to a research exploring the social and psychological drivers underpinning the adoption of digital technologies in everyday life, with a specific focus on their role in reducing individual carbon emissions. Across two studies with UK residents (n = 2,029), we extend the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to examine general intentions to digitalise aspects of daily life (Study 1) as well as targeted intentions to adopt digital solutions for climate change mitigation (Study 2).