{"id":17761,"date":"2022-02-02T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=17761"},"modified":"2022-02-02T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:13:00","slug":"social-sciences-reaching-uk-net-zero-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/social-sciences-reaching-uk-net-zero-goals\/17761\/","title":{"rendered":"Social sciences play a key part in reaching UK net zero goals"},"content":{"rendered":"
The sizable investment \u2013 in an environmental leadership team \u2013 worth \u00a36.25m, will help facilitate the involvement of the UK\u2019s world-leading social science expertise in interdisciplinary environmental science research and reaching net zero goals.<\/p>\n
Institutional, community and individual behavioural change will be essential to reaching net zero by 2050. The team will enable the development of solutions to help reach these targets as well as achieving environmental, biodiversity and sustainability goals.<\/p>\n
The novel team will integrate world-leading scientists alongside national and local organisations. This will serve to demonstrate the skills and insights of social scientists when it comes to research, policy-making and action.<\/p>\n
Their core objective is to cultivate new ideas and solutions founded upon evidence, data and expertise to strengthen policy and decision makers across the UK.<\/p>\n
The cooperative climate and environment social science programme will be headed by the universities of Exeter and Surrey and will include participation from the Universities of Bath, Leeds and Sussex, as well as the Natural Environment Social Research Network (Natural Resources Wales, NatureScot, Natural England, Environment Agency and Forest Research).<\/p>\n
There will also be involvement from other UK and international universities, local councils, energy and water companies, the National Trust, devolved governments, and science centres.<\/p>\n
Collectively, the group will make sure that the UK takes a world lead in understanding how to attainthe human and institutional change necessary to meet net zero and other critical environmental, biodiversity<\/a> and sustainability goals.<\/p>\n The UK Climate Change Committee made it clear in their 2021 progress report to parliament that actions from businesses, consumers, workers, households, and citizens are essential to achieve the net zero target.<\/p>\nBehavioural change needed for net zero<\/h3>\n