Net zero and rurality: feasibility study into a cross-sectoral, place-based approach to overcoming non-technical barriers to net-zero living in South Lakeland, Cumbria

南湖区议会、坎布里亚可持续发展行动（CAfS）、坎布里亚大学和企业将共同努力，帮助南湖区的社区、个人和组织应对气候变化。这个可行性项目建立在零碳坎布里亚伙伴关系（ZCCP）的工作基础上，这是80多个公共、私营和第三部门组织的开创性合作，已经确定了减少碳排放所需的优先行动。该项目将确定如何减少或消除农村地区脱碳的“非技术障碍”，例如高运输成本、无法实现规模经济、绿色技能短缺、住房存量效率低下、缺乏资金。该项目的产出将有助于为克服这些障碍的方法提供信息，并加速南湖区向净零排放过渡。该项目将重点关注ZCCP已经确定的碳减排优先领域，包括：提高建筑物的能源效率，实现主动出行和电动汽车基础设施（移动性），使当地制造/生产（制造和使用）和农村经济（土地使用）脱碳。该项目将把ZCCP确定的减排行动应用到南湖区，确保它们的可交付性和可融资性，并向ZCCP反馈，以帮助告知和完善坎布里亚郡广泛的脱碳计划。该项目将涉及两个工作链：1。讲习班，这些讲习班将采用一种称为“地方标准工具”的创新方法，以评估在南莱克兰地区建立综合净零中心网络的潜力。将邀请当地居民、各种企业、年轻人、社区团体和培训机构来确定脱碳不同方面之间的协同作用。讲习班将探讨当地商业先驱如何促进有利于当地居民的行动。除了地方标准方法，该项目还将评估新的融资形式，这将使南湖区建立一个农村净零生活基金，以克服农村地区脱碳的财务障碍。这项可行性研究将考虑可偿还补助金/循环贷款计划、个人和机构的收入，以寻求增加不可减少的碳排放、社区福利基金等。该项目将提供一项合作制定的计划，以克服非技术障碍，从而减少南湖区的优先碳排放。

A partnership of South Lakeland District Council, Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), University of Cumbria and businesses will work together to help communities, individuals and organisations in South Lakeland District tackle climate change.This feasibility project builds on the work of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership (ZCCP) - a ground-breaking collaboration of 80+ public, private and third sector organisations that has identified the priority actions needed to reduce carbon emissions.The project will establish how 'non-technical barriers' to decarbonisation in rural areas, such as high transport costs, inability to achieve economies of scale, green skills shortage, inefficient housing stock, lack of funding, can be reduced or removed. The outputs of this project will help to inform approaches to overcome these barriers and accelerate the transition to Net Zero in South Lakeland.The project will focus on the priority areas for carbon emissions reduction which have already been identified by the ZCCP and include: improving the energy efficiency of buildings, enabling active travel and electric vehicle infrastructure (mobility), decarbonising local manufacture/production (make and use) and the rural economy (land-use). The project will apply the emissions reduction actions identified by ZCCP to South Lakeland, ensuring their deliverability and fundability and feedback to ZCCP to help inform and refine Cumbria wide decarbonisation plans.The project will involve two workstrands:1. Workshops which will apply an innovative approach, called the Place Standard Tool, to assess the potential for a network of integrated net-zero hubs within the South Lakeland area. Local residents, diverse businesses, young people, community groups and training providers will be invited to identify synergies between different aspects of decarbonisation. The workshops will explore ways in which local business pioneers could catalyse actions which benefit local residents.2. Alongside the Place Standard approach the project will also assess new forms of finance which will enable the establishment of a rural net-zero-living fund for South Lakeland to overcome the financial barriers to decarbonisation in rural areas. This feasibility study will consider repayable grants/revolving loan schemes, income from individuals and organisations seeking to inset irreducible carbon emissions, community benefit funds, and more.The project will deliver a collaboratively developed plan for overcoming non-technical barriers to enable the reduction of priority carbon emissions in South Lakeland.