Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Action (TSITICA)

通过包容性气候行动改变社会不平等 (TSITICA)

• 批准号: ES/T015446/1
• 负责人: Mark New
• 金额: $ 249.47万
• 依托单位: University of Cape Town
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT015446%2F1
• 关键词: Transforming; Social; Inequalities; through; Inclusive

The Agenda 2030 of the UN sets out ambitious challenges for society to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While all SDGs are important in Africa, those related to poverty (SDG 1, 8), inequality (SDG 5, 10) and climate change (SDG 13, 7) are especially relevant. Africa has some of the highest global poverty rates, levels of inequality, climate vulnerabilities, and shortfalls in energy access. Making substantial progress on all these SDGs will require action in any single SDG domain that maximises synergies and co-benefits and avoids as much as possible negative trade-offs. Aims and Objectives: Our project's overarching research question is: How do African societies design and implement climate action to improve sustainable livelihoods, and reduce both poverty and inequality? For example, all African countries need to adapt their food systems to be more resilient to climate change, but there are different routes to achieving this - such as investing in large-scale industrialised agriculture or supporting small-scale farmers to be more climate smart - which can result in very different livelihood benefits across society. Our second objective is to build a network of African-UK researchers who can bring deep disciplinary expertise to bear on this interdisciplinary problem. In particular, our project brings together two newly-established ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoE) on climate change and inequalities, with world-leading expertise from the UK, to form this network and to work at the nexus of climate change, inequality and poverty. Our Approach: To address the climate-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa we have created an interdisciplinary research team with expertise in development economics, livelihoods, poverty and inequality, climate policy and governance, energy and mitigation, and adaptation. We will answer our research questions through comparative research across three country settings - Ghana, Kenya and South Africa - that will allow us to synthesise commonalities and differences across these different contexts. Our approach is multi-scale and multi-dimensional, seeking to understand i) the political, economic and policy context within which transformative climate actions are enabled (or prevented); ii) how socio-economic and climate change policies have affected livelihood trajectories of different groups in society; iii) the potential outcomes from climate change actions, with a focus on how these outcomes vary across social groups, especially between men and women, but also social differences such as education, income, and land tenure; iv) how existing climate actions are working (or not) to build sustainable livelihood trajectories for communities; v) understanding the country-wide social and economic benefits of different climate actions, when applied at scale. Our project will involve close collaboration with leaders in policy and practice, and also with communities, so that their needs and priorities inform our research, and so that our research in turn shifts their thinking and actions. Project Outcomes: - A well-established, pan-African research network that has multiple collaborations within this project, and in new projects leveraged out of this project. - Evidence on the synergies and trade-offs between climate action, poverty and inequality. - Evidence on how specific national priority climate actions can be designed to deliver co-benefits for livelihoods and reducing poverty and inequality.- Ultimately, climate policies and associated actions to be transformative in improving livelihoods and well-being, reducing poverty and inequality, rather than business as usual at national and global political levels.

联合国《2030年议程》为社会实现17个可持续发展目标（SDG）提出了雄心勃勃的挑战。虽然所有可持续发展目标在非洲都很重要，但与贫困（可持续发展目标1、8）、不平等（可持续发展目标5、10）和气候变化（可持续发展目标13、7）有关的目标尤其重要。非洲的贫困率、不平等程度、气候脆弱性和能源供应短缺都是全球最高的。要在所有这些可持续发展目标上取得实质性进展，就需要在任何一个可持续发展目标领域采取行动，最大限度地发挥协同作用和共同利益，并尽可能避免负面权衡。宗旨和目标：我们项目的首要研究问题是：非洲社会如何设计和实施气候行动，以改善可持续生计，减少贫困和不平等？例如，所有非洲国家都需要调整其粮食系统，以提高对气候变化的适应能力，但实现这一目标的途径不同-例如投资于大规模工业化农业或支持小规模农民更加气候智能-这可能会导致整个社会的生计利益非常不同。我们的第二个目标是建立一个非洲-英国研究人员网络，他们可以带来深入的学科专业知识来解决这个跨学科问题。特别是，我们的项目汇集了两个新成立的ARUA气候变化和不平等问题卓越中心，拥有来自英国的世界领先的专业知识，形成了这个网络，并致力于解决气候变化，不平等和贫困的关系。我们的方法：为了解决非洲的气候-贫困-不平等关系，我们建立了一个跨学科研究小组，拥有发展经济学、生计、贫困和不平等、气候政策和治理、能源和减缓以及适应方面的专门知识。我们将通过三个国家的比较研究来回答我们的研究问题-加纳，肯尼亚和南非-这将使我们能够综合这些不同背景下的共性和差异。我们的方法是多尺度和多维度的，寻求理解i）能够采取变革性气候行动的政治，经济和政策背景㈡社会经济和气候变化政策如何影响社会不同群体的生计轨迹;气候变化行动的潜在结果，重点是这些结果在社会群体之间，特别是在男女之间的差异，还包括教育、收入和土地保有权等社会差异; iv）现有的气候行动如何（或是否）为社区建立可持续的生计轨迹; v）了解不同气候行动在大规模应用时在全国范围内的社会和经济效益。我们的项目将涉及与政策和实践领导人以及社区的密切合作，以便他们的需求和优先事项为我们的研究提供信息，从而使我们的研究反过来改变他们的思维和行动。项目成果：- 一个完善的泛非研究网络，在本项目内以及在本项目以外的新项目中进行多方面的合作。- 气候行动、贫困和不平等之间协同作用和权衡的证据。- 关于如何设计具体的国家优先气候行动以实现生计和减少贫困和不平等的共同利益的证据。最终，气候政策和相关行动将在改善生计和福祉、减少贫困和不平等方面发挥变革作用，而不是在国家和全球政治层面一切照旧。

项目成果

Socioeconomic-Related Inequalities in COVID-19 Vulnerability in South Africa.

• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710480
• 发表时间: 2022-08-23
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
• 作者: Shifa, Muna;Gordon, David;Leibbrandt, Murray;Zhang, Mary
• 通讯作者: Zhang, Mary

Socioeconomic-Related Inequalities in COVID-19 Vulnerability in South Africa

南非与 COVID-19 脆弱性相关的社会经济不平等

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202206.0265.v1
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Shifa M

Climate change-related shocks, assets and welfare outcomes in South Africa

南非与气候变化相关的冲击、资产和福利结果

• DOI: 10.1111/saje.12368
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: South African Journal of Economics
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Díaz Pabón F

From climate risk to resilience: Unpacking the economic impacts of climate change in Kenya

从气候风险到复原力：揭示气候变化对肯尼亚的经济影响

• DOI: 10.2499/p15738coll2.136953
• 作者: Hartley F