Centre for Climate Change Transformations (C3T)

气候变化转变中心(C3T)将成为一个全球中心，了解应对气候变化所需的深刻变化。它的核心是一个具有巨大社会意义的根本问题：作为一个社会，我们如何才能以满足快速和深远减排的迫切需要的方式，以不同的方式生活得更好？尽管目前采取行动应对气候变化的国际势头强劲，但很明显，如果社会各阶层不进行根本性变革，关键目标(如将全球气温升幅控制在远低于工业化前水平的2摄氏度以内)将无法实现。C3T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，以实现真正长期可持续的低碳未来。我们的中心将专注于人们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，这些领域直接影响气候变化，但已被证明顽固地抵制变化：商品和实物产品的消费、食品和饮食、旅行和供暖/制冷。我们将在多个范围(个人、社区、组织、国家和全球)开展工作，以确定和试验在这些具有挑战性的领域实现持久变革的各种途径。特别是，我们将测试专注于“共同利益”将在多大程度上加快变革的步伐。共同受益是除了减少温室气体排放带来的好处之外，对个人和社会具有价值的结果。这些措施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、安全和可负担性，以及提高适应和应对未来气候变化的能力。例如，低碳出行选择(如骑自行车和汽车共享)可能会带来健康、社会和经济利益，这对激励行为和政策变化非常重要。同样，使环境和社会与经济目标保持一致对于企业内的行为和组织变革至关重要。我们的研究主题认识到，变革性变革需要：激励但可行的未来愿景(主题1)；从过去和现在的社会变革中吸取教训(主题2)；试验不同的社会变革模式(主题3)；以及与社区、企业和政府进行深入和持续的接触，以及反映我们的目标并促进行动的研究文化(主题4)。我们的中心将社会科学和自然科学各学科的学术知识与实际见解相结合，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、选择和治理方面拥有专业知识。我们将使用一系列理论和研究方法来填补我们在不同空间和社会尺度上对变革的理解中的关键空白，并展示如何及时针对有影响力的行动、群体和时刻进行干预。我们将与实践者(如气候外展、绿色英国、中国气候变化传播中心)、政策制定者(如威尔士政府)和公司(如盎格利亚水务)合作，开发和测试与英国和国际公众、政府和企业互动的新方法。我们将通过借调、公民小组、小规模项目资金、研讨会、培训、研讨会、论文、博客文章和互动网站等多种机制，提高公民、组织和社会领导人应对气候变化的能力。我们还将在学术界内部进行变革试验，通过试验可持续的工作实践(例如，在线研讨会)、“反身性”(研究我们自己的行为及其对他人的影响)，并将我们的成果和数据公之于众。

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.