In the next decade, there is a serious risk that the most significant social impacts of climate change in the UK will result not from increased temperatures and rainfall but from the distributional consequences of policies chosen to tackle climate change. Understanding these consequences is therefore central to the development of socially just responses to climate change in the UK.
This Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded research aims to provide policy makers with the evidence they will need to enact socially just responses to climate change in the UK. It will produce rigorous scientific estimates of which groups of people currently produce the most (and the least) C02 emissions and the distributional consequences of a wide range of policies designed to mitigate UK household energy and transport-related carbon emissions.
The project is a collaboration between the University of Bristol, University of Oxford and the Centre for Sustainable Energy.