Places of Contestation: Locating Racial Inequalities inClimate and Transition Risks in the UK

气候变化是对日常生活的一个现实的、不可逆转的、根本性的威胁，它将加剧英国现有的不平等，包括种族不平等。限制这一威胁需要在建筑、交通、农业、制造业、能源和用水等各个部门迅速而广泛地减少对化石燃料的使用。然而，向脱碳社会和经济转型的影响也分布不均，随着转型措施的影响越来越深远，对贫困和边缘化群体的负面影响可能会增加。“公正的过渡”旨在确保最需要的人获得过渡福利，并且成本不会不公平地负担在最无力支付的人身上。这个概念可能感觉很遥远；脱离日常经验的。该研究项目旨在通过考虑英国的种族、种族和社会不平等的交叉点，使正在进行的气候转型更加公正。为此，它将采用定性和人种学的方法来探索对气候和转型风险的理解、经验和影响。

Climate change is a present, irreversible, and fundamentalthreat to daily life that will worsen existing inequalities inthe UK, including racial inequality. Limiting this threatrequires a rapid and extensive shift away from fossil fueluse across sectors-buildings, transport, agriculture,manufacturing, energy, and water use. However, theimpacts of transition to a decarbonised society andeconomy are also unevenly distributed, and the negativeeffects on poor and marginalised groups are likely toincrease as transition measures become more far-reaching.A 'just transition' seeks to ensure transition benefits aregained by those most in need, and that the costs do notunfairly weigh on those least able to pay. This concept canfeel remote; separated from everyday experience.This research project aims to make the ongoing climatetransition more just by considering its intersections withrace, ethnicity, and social inequality in the UK. To that end,it will deploy qualitative and ethnographic methods toexplore the understanding, experience, and impact ofclimate and transition risks as they are manifested inplace.