Skills and Capabilities for a Net-zero UK Economy

英国净零经济的技能和能力

• 批准号: 2887317
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 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-2887317
• 关键词: Skills; Capabilities; Net; zero; UK

Achieving the UK's net-zero target to decarbonize all sectors by 2050 requires a landmark change in the economy. It is expected that companies will have to eliminate their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, while significantly reducing their Scope 3 emissions by 2050. Yet, a recent large-scale survey by British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows that most firms are significantly behind in their net-zero journey: Majority of the firms do not understand and measure their environmental impact and they lack sound action plans to achieve the emissions reduction targets for 2050. Green labour skills (i.e. technical and managerial) and firms capabilities (i.e. technological and organizational) are going to be important levers foreffectively engaging UK firms into the net-zero transition.This research project, jointly undertaken by Imperial College London and British Chambers of Commerce, will generate a taxonomy of green skills and capabilities that will be essential for UK's net-zero transition. It will also generate insights towards the complex relationships that green skills and capabilities have with firms' economic and environmental performance. One of the fundamental challenges in engaging firms to the net-zero transition is translating the terminology of 'green skills and capabilities 'into a language understood by businesses. Hence, the study will focus on better understanding 'green labour skills' and 'green firm capabilities' and how they apply to different types of businesses to move towards tangible net-zero solutions at the firm-level. The project aims to generate frameworks and insights that can help shape the investments of UK firms in green skills and capabilities; whilst providing evidence-based policy guidance on the range of green skills and capabilities that would be essential for the de carbonisation and growth of the UK economy.As an empirical context, we will focus on the Circular Economy (CE) transition and its three guiding principles of:(1) "eliminating waste and pollution", (2) "circulating products and materials (at their highest value)" and (3)"regenerating the nature" . In the first phase of the study, using a range of diverse data sources (e.g. BCC firm surveys and UK Innovation Survey , ONS occupational data , UK online firm and job adverts data and patent data ), we will map out the required green labour skills and firm capabilities in connection to the abovementioned three CE principles across a range of UK sectors (likely to include construction, textiles, chemistry, agriculture and heavy industries among others). We will, then, undertake an econometric study of the complex relationships that green skills and capabilities have with firms' economic and environmental performance. In the second phase of the project, we will organize stakeholder workshops for policy and industry communities to test and validate the findings of this project; as well as effectively disseminating the key insights of the study.

实现英国到2050年所有行业脱碳的净零目标需要经济发生里程碑式的变化。预计到2050年，企业将不得不消除范围1和范围2的排放，同时大幅减少范围3的排放。然而，英国商会（BCC）最近的一项大规模调查显示，大多数公司在净零排放的过程中远远落后：大多数公司不了解和衡量其对环境的影响，并且缺乏实现2050年减排目标的合理行动计划。绿色劳动技能（即技术和管理）和企业能力（即技术和组织）将成为有效吸引英国企业进入净零过渡的重要杠杆。这项研究项目由伦敦帝国理工学院和英国商会联合开展，将产生一个绿色技能和能力的分类，这将是英国净零过渡的关键。它还将使人们深入了解绿色技能和能力与公司的经济和环境绩效之间的复杂关系。促使企业向净零过渡的根本挑战之一是将“绿色技能和能力”这一术语翻译成企业能够理解的语言。因此，研究将侧重于更好地理解“绿色劳动技能”和“绿色企业能力”，以及如何将其应用于不同类型的企业，以实现企业层面的有形净零解决方案。该项目旨在生成框架和见解，以帮助塑造英国企业在绿色技能和能力方面的投资;同时就英国经济的脱碳和增长所必需的绿色技能和能力范围提供基于证据的政策指导。作为实证背景，我们将重点关注循环经济（CE）转型及其三个指导原则：（1）“消除浪费和污染”，（2）“循环产品和材料（以其最高价值）”，（3）“再生自然”。在研究的第一阶段，使用一系列不同的数据源，（例如BCC公司调查和英国创新调查、ONS职业数据、英国在线公司和招聘广告数据以及专利数据），我们将绘制出与上述三项CE原则相关的英国各行业所需的绿色劳动力技能和公司能力（可能包括建筑、纺织、化学、农业和重工业等）。然后，我们将对绿色技能和能力与企业的经济和环境绩效之间的复杂关系进行经济计量研究。在该项目的第二阶段，我们将为政策和产业界组织利益相关者研讨会，以测试和验证该项目的结果;并有效地传播研究的主要见解。