Centre for Climate Change Transformations (C3T)

气候变化转化中心（C3 T）将成为了解应对气候变化所需的深刻变化的全球中心。其核心是一个具有巨大社会意义的基本问题：作为一个社会，我们如何才能以不同的方式--而且更好地--生活，以满足迅速和深远的减排的迫切需要？虽然目前国际社会在采取行动应对气候变化方面势头强劲，但很明显，如果社会各部门不进行根本性变革，就无法实现关键目标（如将全球气温上升幅度控制在相对于工业化前水平的2摄氏度以内）。C3 T的目标是促进社会对如何改变生活方式、组织和社会结构的理解，以实现低碳未来，这是真正长期可持续的。我们的中心将专注于在日常生活的四个具有挑战性的领域中作为变革的推动者的人，这些领域直接影响气候变化，但已被证明顽固地抵制变化：消费的商品和实物产品，食品和饮食，旅行，加热/冷却。我们将在多个尺度（个人，社区，组织，国家和全球）工作，以确定和实验各种路线，以实现这些具有挑战性的领域的持久变化。特别是，我们将测试关注“共同利益”将在多大程度上加快变革的步伐。共同效益是指在减少温室气体排放的效益之外，对个人和社会具有价值的结果。这些可能包括改善健康和福祉，减少浪费，改善空气质量，提高社会平等，安全和负担能力，以及提高适应和应对未来气候变化的能力。例如，低碳旅行选择（如骑自行车和汽车共享）可能带来健康、社会和财政利益，这些利益对于激励行为和政策变革至关重要。同样，将环境和社会目标与经济目标相结合对于企业的行为和组织变革至关重要。我们的研究主题认识到变革需要：对未来的鼓舞人心但可行的愿景（主题1）;从过去和当前的社会变革中吸取教训（主题2）;尝试不同的社会变革模式（主题3）;与社区、企业和政府的深入和持续接触，以及反映我们目标和促进行动的研究文化（主题4）。我们的中心将社会科学和物理科学学科的学术知识与实践见解相结合，以产生广泛的影响。我们的团队包括世界领先的研究人员，他们在气候变化行为，选择和治理方面具有专业知识。我们将使用一系列的理论和研究方法，以填补我们在不同的空间和社会尺度的转型理解的关键差距，并展示如何有针对性的干预措施，以有影响力的行动，群体和时刻的时间。我们将与从业人员合作（例如，气候外联、英国绿色组织、中国气候变化交流中心）、政策制定者（例如，威尔士政府）和公司（例如，Anglian Water）开发和测试与英国和国际公众、政府和企业互动的新方式。我们将通过各种机制，包括借调、公民小组、小规模项目资助、研讨会、培训、讲习班、论文、博客文章和互动网站，提高公民、组织和社会领袖应对气候变化的能力。我们还将通过试验可持续的工作实践（例如，在线研讨会），"反思“（研究我们自己的行为及其对他人的影响），并使我们的产出和数据可供使用。

The Centre for Climate Change Transformations (C3T) will be a global hub for understanding the profound changes required to address climate change. At its core, is a fundamental question of enormous social significance: how can we as a society live differently - and better - in ways that meet the urgent need for rapid and far-reaching emission reductions? While there is now strong international momentum on action to tackle climate change, it is clear that critical targets (such as keeping global temperature rise to well within 2 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels) will be missed without fundamental transformations across all parts of society. C3T's aim is to advance society's understanding of how to transform lifestyles, organisations and social structures in order to achieve a low-carbon future, which is genuinely sustainable over the long-term.Our Centre will focus on people as agents of transformation in four challenging areas of everyday life that impact directly on climate change but have proven stubbornly resistant to change: consumption of goods and physical products, food and diet, travel, and heating/cooling. We will work across multiple scales (individual, community, organisational, national and global) to identify and experiment with various routes to achieving lasting change in these challenging areas. In particular, we will test how far focussing on 'co-benefits' will accelerate the pace of change. Co-benefits are outcomes of value to individuals and society, over and above the benefits from reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These may include improved health and wellbeing, reduced waste, better air quality, greater social equality, security, and affordability, as well as increased ability to adapt and respond to future climate change. For example, low-carbon travel choices (such as cycling and car sharing) may bring health, social and financial benefits that are important for motivating behaviour and policy change. Likewise, aligning environmental and social with economic objectives is vital for behaviour and organisational change within businesses.Our Research Themes recognise that transformative change requires: inspiring yet workable visions of the future (Theme 1); learning lessons from past and current societal shifts (Theme 2); experimenting with different models of social change (Theme 3); together with deep and sustained engagement with communities, business and governments, and a research culture that reflects our aims and promotes action (Theme 4). Our Centre integrates academic knowledge from disciplines across the social and physical sciences with practical insights to generate widespread impact. Our team includes world-leading researchers with expertise in climate change behaviour, choices and governance. We will use a range of theories and research methods to fill key gaps in our understanding of transformation at different spatial and social scales, and show how to target interventions to impactful actions, groups and moments in time. We will partner with practitioners (e.g., Climate Outreach, Greener-UK, China Centre for Climate Change Communication), policy-makers (e.g., Welsh Government) and companies (e.g., Anglian Water) to develop and test new ways of engaging with the public, governments and businesses in the UK and internationally. We will enhance citizens', organisations' and societal leaders' capacity to tackle climate change through various mechanisms, including secondments, citizens' panels, small-scale project funding, seminars, training, workshops, papers, blog posts and an interactive website. We will also experiment with transformations within academia itself, by trialling sustainable working practices (e.g., online workshops), being 'reflexive' (studying our own behaviour and its impacts on others), and making our outputs and data publically available.