Decarbonisation is about much more than reducing emissions. It offers an opportunity to address deeply embedded and newly emerging inequalities experienced by places and communities across the UK.
This workshop will consider what it might mean to transform the systems, spaces and places where ordinary people will feel the impacts of a successful and fair process to a low carbon future, or experience the fallouts of unbridled climate impacts.
Through discussion and collective imagination, we’ll explore:
- What does it mean to radically transform our society in the pursuit of a low-carbon future, rather than just transition to net zero?
- How does life look if climate mitigation and adaptation happen as an economic policy, rather than being driven by socially just outcomes?
- In an ever-changing political landscape, what are the risks if politicians kick decisions down the road, rather than take action today?
Who should attend? The workshop will be particularly valuable to practitioners and policymakers interested in climate justice, public participation, local and regional transformation, and how climate action can improve our everyday lives.
Join us to exchange ideas, test alternative scenarios and consider the collective steps we must take to build a JUST climate future by 2050.