Understanding Social Values on Low Carbon sub surface technologies

能源向净零过渡是一个影响市场、机构和民间社会的社会目标。2019年6月，英国议会通过立法，要求到2050年将英国的温室气体净排放量相对于1990年的水平减少100%（CCC 2019）。向净零排放的过渡对行业发展，投资和创新产生了重大影响，并得到了一系列新兴技术的支持。实现净零排放的核心是需要确保安全、高效和具有成本效益的碳地质储存或使用。IPPC 2018特别报告中的未来碳排放模型显示，CCUS需要达到碳减排目标。碳储存以及制氢和其他地下技术是实现净零目标（CCC 2019）的关键，但非技术因素对于成功交付同样重要。社会接受度是决定地下技术成功与否的一个重要因素，也是社会许可证运营的一个决定因素，但在区域尺度和特定于新兴技术的价值上存在重大证据差距。我们建议对苏格兰和澳大利亚的东北部进行研究，制定能源转型战略，以实现净零排放。在这些网站中，我们建议审查的社会价值的碳捕获和存储（CCUS），地质储存能源和氢生产作为低碳技术的区域利益在发展的早期阶段。该博士学位将解决在理解i）当地环境和拟议的工业和技术变革的动态以实现净零方面的知识差距; ii）当地环境如何影响低碳技术的可接受性，方向和吸收; ㈢如何在地方一级实质性地改进参与战略;这对改善本国、更广泛的英国和国际背景下的国家气候和能源目标的实现意味着什么。

The Energy Transition to Net Zero is a societal objective that influences markets, institutions and civil society. In June 2019, the UK parliament passed legislation requiring the reduction of UK's net emissions of greenhouse gases by 100% relative to 1990 levels by 2050 (CCC 2019).The transition to Net Zero has major ramifications for industry development, investment and innovation and is supported by a suite of new and emerging technologies. Central to achieve Net Zero is the need to secure safe, efficient and cost-effective geological storage, or use, of carbon (CCUS). Models of future carbon emissions in the IPPC 2018 special report show that CCUS is required to meet carbon reduction targets. Carbon storage alongside hydrogen production and other subsurface technologies are key to achieving Net Zero targets (CCC2019) yet non-technical factors are equally, if not more, important for successful delivery. Societal acceptance is a significant factor in determining the success of subsurface technologies and a determinant of a social licence to operate, yet a major evidence gap exists on values at regional scales and specific to emerging technologies.This project intends to map for the first time the level of public understanding and social acceptance of CCUS in two contrasting regions. We propose an examination of the NE of Scotland and Australia both developing strategies for energy transition to achieve Net Zero. Within these sites we propose to examine the social values on carbon capture and storage (CCUS), geological storage for energy and hydrogen production as low carbon technologies of regional interest at early stages of development. This PhD will address a knowledge gap in understanding i) the local context(s) and dynamics of proposed industrial and technological changes to achieve net zero; ii) how local context can influence the acceptability, direction and uptake of low carbon technologies; iii) how engagement strategies can be materially improved at a local scale and iv) what this means for improving the delivery of the national climate and energy goals in the home nations, the wider UK and international context.