Implications for air quality from net zero policies and pathways in the UK

英国净零排放政策和路径对空气质量的影响

• 批准号: 2885120
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885120
• 关键词: Implications; air; quality; net; zero

Air pollution and human-induced climate change represent two of the greatest environmental risks to human health and their causes and impacts are complex and interrelated. Calls have been made for a co-ordinated policy response but identifying mutually beneficial policies is not as simple as it might seem. The impacts of policy are often dependant on, for example, the economy, technological change, how society or business responds and the wider context in which they occur. And the direction and magnitude of impact on emissions of greenhouse gases or air pollutants may change through the lifetime of the policy implementation. This PhD will explore specific UK net zero policies from a systemic perspective, with a focus on identifying where there are opportunities for significant co-benefits for air pollution that can be realised and where there may be trade-offs that need to be recognised and, if possible, mitigated, or minimised. The analysis will look further than the obvious impacts of desired policy endpoints to explore how different pathways and transitory activities affect air pollution throughout policy implementation. The project will use systems approaches alongside evidence synthesis to carry out secondary research, produce novel insights, and identify major knowledge gaps. It will aim to identify specific areas of risk and/or opportunity, and to inform current thinking about how the UK can leverage greater environmental gains from actions to limit our climate impacts. The PhD work will benefit from existing relationships with the Air Quality and Industrial Emissions Team in Defra.

空气污染和人类引起的气候变化是人类健康面临的两大环境风险，其原因和影响错综复杂，相互关联。有人呼吁采取协调一致的政策应对措施，但确定互利政策并不像看起来那么简单。政策的影响往往取决于经济、技术变革、社会或企业如何应对以及政策产生影响的更广泛背景。在政策实施的整个过程中，对温室气体或空气污染物排放的影响的方向和程度可能会发生变化。该博士将从系统的角度探讨具体的英国净零政策，重点是确定哪里有机会实现空气污染的重大共同利益，哪里可能有需要认识到的权衡，如果可能的话，减轻或最小化。该分析将超越预期政策终点的明显影响，探讨不同途径和过渡性活动如何在政策实施过程中影响空气污染。该项目将使用系统方法以及证据综合来进行二次研究，产生新的见解，并确定主要的知识差距。它将旨在确定风险和/或机会的具体领域，并告知目前关于英国如何从限制气候影响的行动中获得更大的环境收益的想法。博士工作将受益于与Defra空气质量和工业排放团队的现有关系。