Places of Contestation: Locating Racial Inequalities inClimate and Transition Risks in the UK

气候变化是目前对日常生活的不可逆转的根本性威胁，它将加剧英国现有的不平等，包括种族不平等。限制这一威胁需要在建筑、交通、农业、制造业、能源和用水等部门迅速和广泛地放弃化石燃料的使用。然而，向去碳化社会和经济转型的影响也是分配不均的，随着转型措施的深入，对贫困和边缘化群体的负面影响可能会增加。“公正转型”旨在确保最有需要的人获得转型利益，而成本不会不公平地压在那些最无力支付的人身上。这个概念可能感觉很遥远；与日常经验分开。这项研究项目旨在通过考虑气候变化与英国的种族、民族和社会不平等的交集，使正在进行的气候变化更加公正。为此，它将采用定性和人种学方法来探索气候和过渡风险在原地表现时的理解、经验和影响。

Climate change is a present, irreversible, and fundamentalthreat to daily life that will worsen existing inequalities inthe UK, including racial inequality. Limiting this threatrequires a rapid and extensive shift away from fossil fueluse across sectors-buildings, transport, agriculture,manufacturing, energy, and water use. However, theimpacts of transition to a decarbonised society andeconomy are also unevenly distributed, and the negativeeffects on poor and marginalised groups are likely toincrease as transition measures become more far-reaching.A 'just transition' seeks to ensure transition benefits aregained by those most in need, and that the costs do notunfairly weigh on those least able to pay. This concept canfeel remote; separated from everyday experience.This research project aims to make the ongoing climatetransition more just by considering its intersections withrace, ethnicity, and social inequality in the UK. To that end,it will deploy qualitative and ethnographic methods toexplore the understanding, experience, and impact ofclimate and transition risks as they are manifested inplace.