Net zero and rurality: feasibility study into a cross-sectoral, place-based approach to overcoming non-technical barriers to net-zero living in South Lakeland, Cumbria

南莱克兰区议会、坎布里亚可持续发展行动(CAFS)、坎布里亚大学和企业将共同努力，帮助南莱克兰区的社区、个人和组织应对气候变化。这个可行性项目建立在零碳坎布里亚伙伴关系(ZCCP)工作的基础上。ZCCP是一个由80多个公共、私人和第三部门组织组成的开创性合作，已经确定了减少碳排放所需的优先行动。该项目将建立如何减少或消除农村地区脱碳的“非技术障碍”，例如高昂的运输成本、无法实现规模经济、绿色技能短缺、低效住房储备、缺乏资金。该项目的成果将有助于为克服这些障碍的方法提供信息，并加快南湖向净零的过渡。该项目将侧重于ZCCP已经确定的减少碳排放的优先领域，包括：提高建筑物的能源效率，实现积极的出行和电动汽车基础设施(机动性)，降低当地制造/生产(制造和使用)和农村经济(土地使用)的碳化。该项目将把ZCCP确定的减排行动应用到南湖地区，确保其可交付和可资助的能力，并向ZCCP提供反馈，以帮助为坎布里亚大范围的脱碳计划提供信息和完善。该项目将涉及两个工作流程：1.研讨会，将应用一种名为Place Standard Tool的创新方法，评估南湖地区综合净零枢纽网络的潜力。将邀请当地居民、不同的企业、年轻人、社区团体和培训机构确定脱碳的不同方面之间的协同效应。讲习班将探讨当地商业先驱如何推动有利于当地居民的行动。除了Place Standard方法之外，该项目还将评估新的融资形式，这将使南湖地区能够建立农村零生活净基金，以克服农村地区脱碳的财政障碍。这项可行性研究将考虑可偿还赠款/循环贷款计划、寻求嵌入不可减少碳排放的个人和组织的收入、社区福利基金等。该项目将提供一个合作制定的计划，以克服非技术障碍，使南湖地区能够减少优先碳排放。

A partnership of South Lakeland District Council, Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), University of Cumbria and businesses will work together to help communities, individuals and organisations in South Lakeland District tackle climate change.This feasibility project builds on the work of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership (ZCCP) - a ground-breaking collaboration of 80+ public, private and third sector organisations that has identified the priority actions needed to reduce carbon emissions.The project will establish how 'non-technical barriers' to decarbonisation in rural areas, such as high transport costs, inability to achieve economies of scale, green skills shortage, inefficient housing stock, lack of funding, can be reduced or removed. The outputs of this project will help to inform approaches to overcome these barriers and accelerate the transition to Net Zero in South Lakeland.The project will focus on the priority areas for carbon emissions reduction which have already been identified by the ZCCP and include: improving the energy efficiency of buildings, enabling active travel and electric vehicle infrastructure (mobility), decarbonising local manufacture/production (make and use) and the rural economy (land-use). The project will apply the emissions reduction actions identified by ZCCP to South Lakeland, ensuring their deliverability and fundability and feedback to ZCCP to help inform and refine Cumbria wide decarbonisation plans.The project will involve two workstrands:1. Workshops which will apply an innovative approach, called the Place Standard Tool, to assess the potential for a network of integrated net-zero hubs within the South Lakeland area. Local residents, diverse businesses, young people, community groups and training providers will be invited to identify synergies between different aspects of decarbonisation. The workshops will explore ways in which local business pioneers could catalyse actions which benefit local residents.2. Alongside the Place Standard approach the project will also assess new forms of finance which will enable the establishment of a rural net-zero-living fund for South Lakeland to overcome the financial barriers to decarbonisation in rural areas. This feasibility study will consider repayable grants/revolving loan schemes, income from individuals and organisations seeking to inset irreducible carbon emissions, community benefit funds, and more.The project will deliver a collaboratively developed plan for overcoming non-technical barriers to enable the reduction of priority carbon emissions in South Lakeland.