In search of a just transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and climate adaptation: A nexus for social justice in the North of Tyne

英国承诺到2050年实现温室气体净零排放。净零排放要求我们的水、能源、交通和食品系统有一个新的蓝图，必须在30年内大幅减少排放。我们如何确保向净零和气候适应的过渡对英国人民来说是一个公正和公平的过渡？为了找到答案，该项目将研究这些不同系统之间的相互联系，即所谓的“关系”，以了解它们对社会公正的净零的整体贡献。它使用能源正义作为其“指南针”来导航的关系，因为能源是水，运输和食品之间的共同界面。这项研究将揭示如何通过将社会正义置于关系的中心来减少温室气体排放和适应气候变化，以实现公正的过渡。该项目将与泰恩北部联合管理局合作，调查气候政策干预措施和公民参与泰恩北部的联系系统，重点是纽卡斯尔哈塞尔，这是纽卡斯尔城市可持续发展的典范。该项目将调查泰恩北部的气候行动计划和政策如何能够告知纽卡斯尔哈钦斯，以建立社会正义的联系。通过与主要利益攸关方的参与性行动研究方法，该项目寻求了解净零和气候适应政策如何不会进一步使最弱势群体处于不利地位并增加社会经济不平等，并将提出实现公正过渡的实际方法。

The UK has committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Net-zero requires a new blueprint for our water, energy, transport and food systems that must cut their emissions substantially in 30 years' time. How can we ensure that the transition to net-zero and climate adaptation is a just and fairtransition for the people of the UK? To find out this project will look at the interlinkages between these different systems, known as the 'nexus', to understand their contribution as a whole to a socially just net-zero. It uses energy justice as its 'compass' to navigate the nexus as energy is the common interface betweenwater, transport and food. The research will reveal how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change by placing social justice at the centre of the nexus in order to achieve a just transition. In partnership with the North of Tyne Combined Authority, the project will investigate climate policy interventions and citizen engagements with nexus systems in the North of Tyne, focusing on Newcastle Helix, an exemplar urban sustainable development in Newcastle. The project will investigate how climate action plans and policies in the North of Tyne can inform Newcastle Helix to create a nexus for social justice. Through participatory action research methods with key stakeholders, the project seeks to understand how policies for net-zero and climate adaptation do not further disadvantage the most vulnerable and increase socioeconomic inequalities, and will suggest practical ways forward for attaining a just transition.